[ltp] OT: HD upgrade recommendations?

[Shigeo Tanai]

Daishi,

Find out what the model name of your current hard disk by referring
to /proc/ide/hda/model.  Then go to IBM website:
<http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/menu.htm>
or if you prefer Japanese:
<http://www.ibm.co.jp/oemj/storage/>
and search for your hdd's spec sheet.  Look for height information.

It's probably a 12.5mm height, as already mentioned by Harald Milz
<hm@seneca.muc.de>, but I'm not sure.

After that, take a look at IBM's selection of Travelstar hdds.
If you decide to get a thinner drive, you might want to pad it with
something that can withstand heat.


At 06:12 00/03/25 , Daishi Harada <daishi@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>Perhaps I'm being blind, but I can't seem to locate the discussion
>that you're referring to. I saw a discussion on disk geometry
>settings, and also one on second hd's and lilo, but none on this
>topic.
>
>What I've been worried about is that although there are a variety of
>2.5" hds available, they seem to vary in height (~9mm-13mm?), and I
>haven't been able to find out what a 560X wants. (The only ones that
>seem to explicity say "560x compatible" are the Apricorn's). Also,
>does the height have to be exactly right? Presumably a thinner one
>would fit just fine; do people manually "pad" the drive so that it
>doesn't rattle around?
>
>Thanks,
>d

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