Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:42:56 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Seagate 160GB HD now available for sale at retailers
For example, for $355, you can now get it from one of my favorite distributors online - www.newegg.com. Obviously, a very expensive drive vs. the <$200 120GB & 100GB HDs out earlier. Good for newer Librettos that can handle the larger HDs w/o a drive image overlay program; older Librettos (probably everything below a Libretto L1 series) w/o UDMA IDE connectors most likely will have trouble handling anything over the ~120GB too-old BIOS limit. (Of course, we won't know for sure unless someone buys and tests, but probably ....) Thus, for now, the <=120GB HDs out on the market will most likely be the 'largest' 2.5" HD you can drop into any Libretto from the L20 on up (you'll need to use a drive overlay program, do fancy formatting/fdisking per prior posted threads, or use an OS such as W2K/WXP/Linux that supports HDs larger than what the Libretto BIOS can see by itself). The >120GB HDs will require BIOS support of this + HW support of large HDs, and it's unknown at this time if any Libretto can correctly function and see the entire >120GB HD, even with a drive overlay program. Nevertheless, it is a good HD to use to upgrade modern, regular laptops, and this will allow users with 3-drive bays on their laptops to upgrade to a 1/2 tetrabyte of online storage on their laptops =) adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
