partsLookup

[Roisin]

can someone please use: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... sLookup.vm
to look up any t43 model with a 5400rmp drive, and see the exact model, so we know if it's a 5k80 or a 5k100?
For some reason, i cannot lookup anything with that....

[JHEM]

There's no 100GB HD yet listed as being standard in any T43 in the latest TABOOK.PDF.

Your choices for HDs are 5K40, 5K60, 5K80 and 7K60.

Regards,

James

[Roisin]

There's no 100GB HD yet listed as being standard in any T43 in the latest TABOOK.PDF.
Your choices for HDs are 5K40, 5K60, 5K80 and 7K60.

no, those are 'series', 5k80 vs the new 5k100 series

5k100 include:
Travelstar5K100 models Size RPM Interface
HTS541010G9AT00 100 5400 Parallel-ATA
HTS541080G9AT00 80 5400 Parallel-ATA
HTS541060G9AT00 60 5400 Parallel-ATA
HTS541040G9AT00 40 5400 Parallel-ATA
HTS541010G9SA00 100 5400 Serial-ATA
HTS541080G9SA00 80 5400 Serial-ATA
HTS541060G9SA00 60 5400 Serial-ATA
HTS541040G9SA00 40 5400 Serial-ATA

[NathanA]

That's correct. Just because it is not 100GB does not mean it is not a 5K100-series model drive. The 5K100 drives come in variations from 40GB to 100GB as Roisin pointed out.

I'll have to check...does the TABOOK specify which exact Travelstar model is being used in the T43s? If it can't be determined by parts lookup, it MIGHT be possible to see if 5K100s are even being used at all by seeing whether they are given an FRU in the latest or next edition of the Hardware Maintenance Manual.

-- Nathan