Re: [Thinkpad] Drive type for Ultraslimbay 600X

> Any laptop drive should do. The interface on the 600X is UDMA-33, so that
> will slow down the very fastest of drives, but not by much.

Would you mind telling me just what this "Udma-33....slow down" means? Slow
down!? :(

I've been thinking of moving to a 7200 rpm drive to poop up my 600X/500
machine, is that unwise?
-I have been waiting for this firmware thing to shake out more...is that
necessry ?
Would a 5400 rpm upgrade make more sense? -That would be disappointing.

> OK. I just looked at Intel's web site for the 440BX AGPSet, which is in
> the 600X. It says that chipset can use UDMA mode 2, or ATAPI-4 which is
> indeed 33.3MB/s.

Sorry, but here is a little more greek...a brief explaination of this one
too?
It may remain greek but it would be interesting to hear.

Thanks,

Bryan

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Received on Wed Mar 3 21:12:35 2004