Re: Thinkpad 600E and 20gb HD

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From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2001 - 17:04:55 EST

buy.com has a 20GB Travelstar for $168; I thought the others were much more
expensive - ?

- David R.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert C. Lee" <alee_at_securefront.com>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 8:08 AM
Subject: Thinkpad 600E and 20gb HD

> I have a Thinkpad 600E (2645-55U). I'm thinking of bumping up my hard
> drive to 20gb and installing Win2k on a fresh disk.
>
> There seems to be 3 different hard drives that fit...
>
> Hitachi 20GB/4200rpm ATA-5 IDE 2.5"x9.5mm Notebook Hard Drive DK20BA
> IBM 20GB/4200rpm Ultra-DMA 66 2.5"x9.5mm Notebook Hard Drive DJSA-220000
> Toshiba 20GB/4200rpm ATA-4 IDE 2.5"x9.5mm Notebook Hard Drive HD2154
>
> They're all priced about the same, give or take. Are there any specific
> advantages or disadvantages to each one? The IBM drive I am using right
> now (12gb) and the one before it (6.4gb) both became really noisy after a
> few months. But if reliability or speed are compromised, I would choose
> the noiser drive over a less reliablity or slower one.
>
> Any input?
>
> Thanks,
> -Al
>
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