I have had problems on 600E's with anything bigger than 60GIG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Schumann" <[email protected]>
To: "Jonathan Berry" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Western Digital Goes 1 TB on SATA Laptop Drives
Jonathan Berry wrote:
The 7xx series took 17mm drives, although I vaguely recall a "slim"
model
somewhere in the line that was limited to a 12.5mm drive.
The 600 and other machines of that vintage took 12.5mm drives.
So my old 701C's will "take" the new 1,000 GB drives, but because of BIOS
limitations will only see 8 GB.
Of almost practical interest is the 600E / 600X, which both will easily
run an OS (Win2K) which will run NTFS.
I'm happily running an 80GB on the 600X. Do 600 machines have
any BIOS or other limitations running disks over 100 GB?
The 600 series will certainly use up to 128GB without fail. They may work
with larger drives, but I haven't seen any reports.
Keep in mind that most new drives are SATA and anything before the *60
series is PATA/IDE. (Except of course the 800 series.)
Chris
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