can thinkpads use dell hard drives?

Message

mamamia · #1 Post by **mamamia** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:50 pm

because dell is having a sale on their hard drives.

mamamia · #2 Post by **mamamia** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:00 pm

i was thinking about getting a 7k60. it's dell-branded, and so i'm not sure what consequences that has. but it comes out to $150 before tax and shipping.

it's the 60gb version, but ships in 1-2 weeks, according to dell. but that's cheaper than other people (only seller with it in-stock is zipzoomfly).

#3 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:35 pm

You should be able to use that hard drive with your ThinkPad. With the exception of the Dell branding and possibly slightly modified firmware, it's the same as a generic version.

#4 Post by **Kyocera** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:29 pm

I use a hard drive I got out of an old Fiery Print System, it is 10G. Used R&R CD's to format it, works great, using it right now.

#5 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:46 pm

I used to have a 20gb Hitachi drive pulled from a Dell Latitude in one of my ThinkPad's for some time until it just went kaput.

The 20gb Fujitsu drive in my 760 is from a Compaq laptop; it even has a Compaq spare part number barcode on it.

Boricua65 · #6 Post by **Boricua65** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:58 pm

Right www.geeks.com are having a sale on laptop harddrives. They call it the Green Light Special, and I've seen prices way less than what you are about to pay.

mamamia · #7 Post by **mamamia** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:14 pm

thanks, but those aren't 7200 rpm hard drives. 7200 rpm ones are much more expensive

can thinkpads use dell hard drives?

can thinkpads use dell hard drives?

travelstar 7k60

Who is online