NEW, Bare, large capacity HDD's - (cash price)
IBM Travelstar 48GH Series
on hand - $699 (less to existing customers)
Capacity - 48Gig, the Rotational Speed is 5411 RPM
Average seek time - 12.0 ms, height - 12.5mm. (This drive is faster than the 32gig below)
Read about the new "Pixiedust" technique.. click here
Read all the specs by clicking HERE
In short, this new drive uses some terrific new technology. Its data throughput is faster. The down side is that it
appears to also use a tiny bit more power. The good news is that IBM Storage has this nice little utility that
can be used to tweak the power settings on a travelstar drive.
IBM Travelstar 32GH Series
on hand - $399 (thinkpad option drives)
Capacity - 32Gig, the Rotational Speed is 5411 RPM
Average seek time - 12.0 ms, height - 12.5mm. This drive is fast!
This drive uses Load/unload technology which is a "back to the future"
sort of thing.. the heads park on a ramp and never (hopefully) touch the surface if the
disk platters. My Control Data Hawk and Phoenix HDD's used this technology in the 1970's.
This is, I suppose, a good thing. Without going into TOO much depth, in the "olden days" (see above)
hard drive heads never touched the disk surfaces. When they DID, we called it a head crash and
a disaster! Then Winchester Technology was introduced. The heads would land on the disk surface
when the drive was stopped. Now, it seems that IBM has re-discovered the old way.
Specifications
IBM Travelstar 30GH Series Available - special order - price usually about $340
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NOTE: There is a new 9mm Travelstar drive. Great for the "X" series. No price or availability on this
one yet. There IS a toshiba 30gig, 9mm drive for about $289
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Capacity - 30 GB (Old news, get the 32gig, its so much faster)
Rotational Speed - 4200 RPM
Interface - ATA-5
Average seek time - 12.0 ms 1 or 3 year warranty, depending upon source and price
Height - 12.5mm.
1 year warranty. Will work with most new generation thinkpads
Specifications
IBM 20gig 9.5mm HDD,
price and availability change - $175 (cash) as usual, price fluctuates
2.5 inch, model # DJSA-220
1 year warranty. This drive works in the newer thinkpads (570/600/770 and others)
Specifications
IBM 10gig 9mm HDD - price and availability change
2.5 inch, model # DJSA 210, $129 one on hand
1 year warranty. A very nice little HDD.
This drive works in the newer thinkpads (570/600/770 and others)
Specifications
IBM 6.0gig 9mm HDD,
2.5 inch, model # DARA 206000, $156 none on hand - looking for some
1 year warranty. This is a best selling drive for ThinkPad 701's and all older machines.
This is about the largest capacity HDD for older thinkpads.
Specifications
Applications:
Please ask about the Win95-B configuration for the 701 thinkpad
(you must supply your win95 serial number)
765D & L, 760E series, 760C series and most all older thinkpads:
6.0gig drive (see above) can be swapped for 2.1gig or larger in your drive shell or a clone hard drive shell can be added for $60.
560 series and 701C,Cs
and the 365
seriesAny 9mm or 12.5mm hard drive. 6.4gig is the best choice.. Why? because these are cheap
now and a smaller capacity drive will not save much $$..
750C - 755CD, CX, CE, etc.
Almost ANYTHING will work in the 75x series of thinkpads!
drives UP TO 6.4gig drives will operate in the 75x series
755 style drive shell $65 with drive purchase.
to send e-mail, click here: e-Mail to Bill Morrow
The EZ-Gig Transfer 'Kit' is available separately with a 10 copy license.
Buy it or rent it.
A Hard Disk copy utility is available from Power Quest.. it is called Drive Copy
There is also a new Partition copy utility from Power Quest which will copy your complete hard drive image to any other media and restore it. This will allow a master drive image to be maintained and copied to any hard drive.
HERE
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