[ltp] Replacement disk for a T60
Robert T. West ("Tim")
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:50:25 -0400
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Interesting, thanks. I may be looking to upgrade the drive in my own T60p.
I've often wondered why anyone would put the HD protection software in the
OS. Seems a fundamentally silly place to put it.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:10:31AM -0400, Robert T. West (Tim) wrote:
> > Any heat problems with that?
> >
> > I know some folks have fried SOME notebooks by substituting a 7200 rpm
> > drive where the cooling was designed for 5,400 rpm drive. I have no
> > clue how that applies to ThinkPads specifically.
>
> All of my T4x, T6x, and X6x laptops have had 7200rpm drives as options
> officially supported by IBM/Lenovo, and I am currently using the
> latest Seagate Momentus 7200.3 320MB drive with built-in anti-shock
> protection (which means you don't have to have a battery-draining
> daemon waking up CPU multiple times per second). I've not had any
> problems whatsoever; in fact, I've been quite pleased with the
> performance and power draw.
>
> - Ted
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<div dir="ltr">Interesting, thanks. I may be looking to upgrade the drive in my own T60p.<br><br>I've often wondered why anyone would put the HD protection software in the OS. Seems a fundamentally silly place to put it. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Theodore Tso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tytso@mit.edu">tytso@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:10:31AM -0400, Robert T. West (Tim) wrote:<br>
> Any heat problems with that?<br>
><br>
> I know some folks have fried SOME notebooks by substituting a 7200 rpm<br>
> drive where the cooling was designed for 5,400 rpm drive. I have no<br>
> clue how that applies to ThinkPads specifically.<br>
<br>
</div>All of my T4x, T6x, and X6x laptops have had 7200rpm drives as options<br>
officially supported by IBM/Lenovo, and I am currently using the<br>
latest Seagate Momentus 7200.3 320MB drive with built-in anti-shock<br>
protection (which means you don't have to have a battery-draining<br>
daemon waking up CPU multiple times per second). I've not had any<br>
problems whatsoever; in fact, I've been quite pleased with the<br>
performance and power draw.<br>
<br>
- Ted<br>
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