Larger Hard Drive for T60

My T60 came with an 80GB SATA HD.  I would like to replace it with 
something larger, preferably >=320GB.  Any recommendations on brand, 
model, reliability, etc.?  Of course, it has to operate under eCS and 
occasionally XP.

What are your opinions on this one
< http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=377 >

Hi Ted

Ted Edwards wrote:
> My T60 came with an 80GB SATA HD.  I would like to replace it with 
> something larger, preferably >=320GB.  Any recommendations on brand, 
> model, reliability, etc.?  Of course, it has to operate under eCS and 
> occasionally XP.
> 
> What are your opinions on this one
> < http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=377 >
> 
> Ted



Hard disk drives are probably 1 of the weakest bits of a system. No idea 
if WD models are any better than any others...

If I was buying I would probably look at Samsung drives, possibly the 
HM320JI,  simply because I have not had any problems with 3 Samsung 
SATA2 drives in use here, 1 of which has just scraped past it's 1st 
birthday. Doubt if they will last as long as the 8 year old SCSI U160 
drives they replaced though...

I would not expect your eCS system to have problems with a disk size 
change - might be worth making sure that all disk related drivers are at 
the current level though. Will Windows need any extra drivers? - doubt 
it; you might want to check for any related driver updates though.

Will you be installing both systems fresh or using cloning/disk 
image/xcopy to just copy existing installations to the new drive?

Regards

Pete

Ted Edwards wrote:
> My T60 came with an 80GB SATA HD.  I would like to replace it with 
> something larger, preferably >=320GB.  Any recommendations on brand, 
> model, reliability, etc.?  Of course, it has to operate under eCS and 
> occasionally XP.
> 
> What are your opinions on this one
> < http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=377 >
> 
> Ted
I am using HITACHI 7K200-160 on my R60. eCS+Vista. No problems so far. 

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 11:37:44 UTC, Kreo <kresimir.buben@kabsi.at> 
wrote:

-> Ted Edwards wrote:
-> > My T60 came with an 80GB SATA HD.  I would like to replace it with 
-> > something larger, preferably >=320GB.  Any recommendations on
brand, 
-> > model, reliability, etc.?  Of course, it has to operate under eCS and

-> > occasionally XP.
-> > 
-> > What are your opinions on this one
-> > < http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=377 >
-> > 
-> > Ted
-> I am using HITACHI 7K200-160 on my R60. eCS+Vista. No problems so far. 
-> Except known problem with Vista and boot manager.

What version of eCS do you have running on the T60?  Is everything 
working?  Could someone please write an article for VOICE on 
installing eCS on a T6x successfully? 


Mark


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Peter Brown wrote:
> Will you be installing both systems fresh or using cloning/disk 
> image/xcopy to just copy existing installations to the new drive?

I expect I'll clone the XP and do a fresh install of RC4 unless RC5 
comes out before I get the drive.

I have three Western Digital Passport "wallet size" drives, 160 250
and 
320 GB.  While I haven't dropped any, they haven't been particularly 
babied and all are working well.