7200 rpm drives remain available, but at a higher price... and I don't find any larger than 80GB to 120GB. We have one Seagate 120 GB... and a couple of WD... but they are over two years old.
In our experience, they last less than half as long as the 5400 rpm drives... But best are by Seagate, Western Digital, and Toshiba... Avoid Samsung and Maxtor. I don't find any Fujitsu 7200 rpm drives for sale from any vendor except Lenovo... and those Lenovo drives are absurdly expensive... though they seem to be holding up better than any others. _______ There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements. . . . . . . . . . . Aldo Leopold On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:56 PM, STeve Andre' <and...@msu.edu> wrote: > I stuffed many different disks into my T60p, and they all worked. > That I know of, the T43 is the only model that crabbed about > disks, and that was only a warning, as they worked OK. > > Just don't get your hopes up too much about cache size. > Nothing beats your OS in knowing where to get data from; > a cache is great when files are contiguous, but for lots > of fragmentation the heads may have to wander all over, > thus defeating the purpose of the cache. Cache isn't a > bad thing to have--and it does help in some circumstances-- > but I've seen lots of people expect huge gains, only to > be disappointed. > > --STeve Andre' > > On Monday 19 January 2009 20:50:53 Bill Johns wrote: > > Bruce, > > > > Thanks for the quick response. > > > > I'm not sure if my unit has a 7200 RPM or not, I would hope so. I know > > some of the newer hdds have 8 or 16m RAM cache to speed up disk access, > > I don't think the drive that shipped w/my unit has that. :| > > > > Does the T60p suffer from the same hard drive compatibility problems > > that other IBM machines do? I've seen some traffic on the list from > > people having a hard time getting hard drives to work inside various > > Thinkpad models. > > > > Thanks > > Bill Johns > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bruce Markowitz [mailto:sco...@worldnet.att.net] > > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 7:41 PM > > To: Bill Johns; Thinkpad@stderr.org > > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Best replacement drive for T60p? > > > > 7200 RPM drives are faster, but I think you already have that in a T60p > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bill Johns" <b...@darksomething.com> > > To: <Thinkpad@stderr.org> > > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 8:20 PM > > Subject: [Thinkpad] Best replacement drive for T60p? > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm looking to replace my T60p's internal 100g drive and would like to > > > get the list's opinion on the best replacement. I'm looking for pure > > > > raw > > > > > speed first, storage capacity second. Are there any 7200 rpm drives > > > > w/8 > > > > > or 16m cache on them? > > > > > > > > > > > > Any recommendations? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > -Bill Johns > > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > Thinkpad@stderr.org > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list Thinkpad@stderr.org http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
