I have seen reports that Thinkpad X41 laptops have had problems with replacement drives (internal) larger than 60Gb. Has anyone successfully replaced the hard drive in their X41 with an 80Gb drive?
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Bad news first: The IBM X40/41's are notorious for having a proprietary connector. The X41's 1.8" drive is not compatible with conventional 1.8" laptop drives, never mind that pickings are slim even at the more common 2.5" size when compared to desktops. The thread above mentions that you can still jam a 7K100 in there but it will stick out; less than ideal. The good news is that was 3 years ago and now certain SSD's have arisen that may fit, like the Kingspec SSD. Considering the stock 4200rpm, I can't think of a wider performance margin. Be aware that in some cases, a cloning process is necessary(1):
Again, not just any SSD will work; the link above references a particular model from Kingspec. (1) Credits to tomh009 of the thinkpads.com forum. |
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There shouldn't really be a problem. This isn't really a limitation of the Thinkpad, more of a limitation of what is available - it uses 1.8" hard drives instead of normal laptop 2.5" which are rarer and come in smaller capacities. |
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I have seen one of my friend using it. It should be a-ok. Note that there is significant hardware compatibility problem for X41 laptops - i see reports of toshiba 80G harddrives not working with it just by casually googling (reference: http://forum.51nb.com/redirect.php?tid=951249&goto=lastpost :: article in simplified chinese you may or may not be able to read it) thus, see reports of others before buying. |
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