Phantasm66
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Yeah its pretty good but also old enough now that you might be able to find a good bargain price, especially with more Thinkpad models coming out soon.
http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=275Using HD Tune 2.10, we found that the X41 drive offers an average 14.1 MB/second transfer rate and an access time of 24.0 milliseconds. These results are not exactly outstanding in comparison with many of today's Tablet PC's and notebooks that have 5400RPM or 7200RPM drives, however with IBM's proprietary 1.8" drive, there is currently no other option to upgrade at this time.
raybay said:It is true that 1.8 drives are 4200 rpm, but the size of the drive allows faster access than it did on the old 2.5 inch 4200 rpm drives.
This is considered a good thing, as far as I know, and was designed in to provide longer battery life and more robust and reliable drives. So far the 7200 rpm drives only last about half as long as the 5400 rpm drives. The slower the drive, the longer the life in the bearings, and the less power that is required.
Most everybody I know uses the adapter that fits in the optical drive bay to add a second hard drive. I use a 160 GB, 5400 rpm drive, and backup the 80 GB Toshiba drive I have in the X41.
The X42 will take any of the three Toshiba drives, the Hitachi, or the Apricon. I have not tried the Aegis. So I expect the 1.8 drive is used to save weight and battery life. It sure worked great in the backpacs my wife and I used going up to the base camp.
I would not be surprised if a new 1.8 drive with a proprietary design came along to run at 5400 rpm and 120 GB.
HP and Sony now have laptops with this "proprietary" 1.8 drive... It is partially a contest of words... but also probably has something to do with how data is retrieved and other functions. I have not yet looked it up on the IBM site.
Rage_3K_Moiz said:I think it's saying you can, provided it's a proprietary one from IBM. Anyways, I think any HDD above 20GB will be OK, since I'll only be keeping songs and movies on it, not to mention all my assignments. I'll be getting it by mid-June hopefully, right in time for my Summer session to start. Thanks a ton guys, you've been a great help. :grinthumb