[ltp] New hard drive for T61

[Nikolay Panov]

> 1) My dim understanding is that Lenovo did something in the BIOS so
> that only hard drives bought from them will work. However, I think that
> is not entirely correct.

I have successfully installed WDC WD3200BEKT (320Gb, 7200 rpm). With
no any issues.

> 2) I understand that my T61 has a SATA-2 controller, but Lenovo
> throttled it to no more than 100 Mb/s. Hence, there is no point in
> getting a faster hard disk. Yet there may be other issues that would
> make disk access faster. If possible, I would like as fast a disk as
> possible, given the controller situation.
> So my question is: Are there any T61 users here who have installed
> larger hard disks? If so, what did you install, and are you happy with
> its performance?

My previous hitachi disk drive (5400 rpm) was on ~60Mb/s speed by 'hdparm -t'.
My currend WD3200BEKT (7200 rpm) working on ~90Mb/s. This it 150% speed up!

Which disks can now work on more than 100Mb/s? SSD? I doubt if big SSD
disks already has good price to buy it now.