Maximum Hard Drive Size for T43p

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mbressman · #1 Post by **mbressman** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:44 am

I have a T43p (2668-Q2U) that is a few years old, and currently has a 100 GB hard drive. I'm wondering if I can upgrade this hard drive to a larger size (200+ GB)? I don't see any being offered by Lenovo/IBM. Can I buy a 3rd party one that will work with this laptop? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

- Marc

#2 Post by **richk** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:44 pm

Any PATA (not a SATA drive) drive will work, but non-thinkpad drives give a 2010 BIOS error at startup. You can search this forum for details. I have found that Fujitsu drives usually don't give the error, but I think the largest PATA drive they make is 120GB. Maybe someone else has a better suggestion. Many non-thinkpad drive can have there flash memory upgraded to work with T43 without 2010 errors, but I don't think there are firmware updates for any larger drives. Also, the firmware update process doesn't work quite right out-of-the box. You can search this forum for details.

aaa · #3 Post by **aaa** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:03 pm

The ultrabay will take a wider selection of PATA (and SATA, depending on which adapter you get) drives.

sjthinkpader · #4 Post by **sjthinkpader** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:23 pm

The largest PATA Fujitsu drive is 160GB. Fry's has the 120GB drive on sale for $50 until today. These are the most reliable drives I've used.

smugiri · #5 Post by **smugiri** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:38 pm

sjthinkpader wrote:The largest PATA Fujitsu drive is 160GB. Fry's has the 120GB drive on sale for $50 until today. These are the most reliable drives I've used.

Not true.

As of July 2008, there is a 250gb PATA Western Digital Scorpio

qviri · #6 Post by **qviri** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:43 pm

The WD Scorpio is not exactly a "Fujitsu drive".

smugiri · #7 Post by **smugiri** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:48 pm

qviri wrote:The WD Scorpio is not exactly a "Fujitsu drive".

Original request was for info on any 2.5' PATA drive, IBM or 3rd party.

I have a T43p (2668-Q2U) that is a few years old, and currently has a 100 GB hard drive. I'm wondering if I can upgrade this hard drive to a larger size (200+ GB)? I don't see any being offered by Lenovo/IBM. Can I buy a 3rd party one that will work with this laptop? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

qviri · #8 Post by **qviri** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:52 pm

But the statement to which you said "Not true" was Fujitsu-specific, and in the context of drives that don't give an error on T43s.

richk wrote:I have found that Fujitsu drives usually don't give the error, but I think the largest PATA drive they make is 120GB.

sjthinkpader wrote:The largest PATA Fujitsu drive is 160GB.

smugiri · #9 Post by **smugiri** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:52 am

OK.

I conceed defeat. You win the hair splitting contest.

mbressman · #10 Post by **mbressman** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:05 am

So basically the biggest drive I can go with and not get the 2010 BIOS error is the Fujitsu 160 GB?

smugiri · #11 Post by **smugiri** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:59 pm

Read this thread for what others on this site have to say about this.

mattster · #12 Post by **mattster** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:00 pm

I looked around and couldn't find the 160GB Fujitsu. I just put a 120GB of the same brand in my system and it worked straight away. No flashing required!

Zipzoomfly still has them @ $56.99 before shipping costs ....

sjthinkpader · #13 Post by **sjthinkpader** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:34 am

Yes, I have two of these 120GB, one 100GB, two 80GB and numerous 40GB Fujitsus.

I've only bought the 7200 RPM Hitachi drives once they acquire IBM HDD operation.

Many people here liked WD and Seagate. I have never used them.

Worst is Toshibas. They fail much more frequently that others. One failure cost a few thousand dollars in recovery lab charges before I got help from a HDD guru named Svend Olaf Mikkelsen and did it myself.

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