Best HDD's for laptops?

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 08:14:36AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:24:15 -0800
> > From: Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 07:43:06PM -0500, Parv wrote:
> > 
> > 	[[ ... ]]
> > > 
> > 	(I *promised* myself not to sink another penny into my 600E
> > 	but in case I break my word: will just about any laptop 
> > 	drive replace my 12GB IBM drive, or do I have to stick to
> > 	an IBM-"approved" drive?)
> 
> No drive approval. (I'm really annoyed about the mini-PCI approval in
> my T30!) Any Toshiba or Hitachi drive should be OK as IBM used both as
> original equipment. I suspect that Fujitsu and any others would be
> fine, too.
> 
> I've seen 40 GB drives for sale at about $80 over the past few weeks
> (both Toshiba and Hitachi) at Fry's, if you are in the right part of the
> country.

	Fry's is the only place *I'd* go...  Anyway, since I can 
	take this anywhere and have it serve as a second console 
	at home, it's nice to know that I'm not wedged when it
	come to upgrading/replacing the HDD.

	thanks guys,

	gary


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