Help, my laptop is fooked, believe it needs a new harddrive. It did have a 10Gb IBM Travelstar, any suggestions where I can get the cheapest replacement. I am also led to believe the laptop is adaptable and will accept larger storage drives.

PK1 may have cheap kit...

 

The laptop will likely take any size of drive as long as it physically fits. Need to keep an eye on the heat though as the new drives generate a lot of heat...

 

 

HTH

Thankyou, been looking on Ebay, but some appear to have different current and voltage specs.

Any more laptop whizzes can help?

The Travelstar range is manufactured by Hitachi. I can get 40GB Travelstars (2.5", 5400RPM, 8MB buffer) for about £40 plus VAT.

 

HTH

 

Steve :)

The Travelstar range is manufactured by Hitachi. I can get 40GB Travelstars (2.5", 5400RPM, 8MB buffer) for about £40 plus VAT.

 

HTH

 

Steve :)

 

I saw that they now make them on the IBM website. Any idea what the voltage and current specs are?

I saw that they now make them on the IBM website. Any idea what the voltage and current specs are?

 

Technical Information

Storage Capacity 40GB

Heads 2 Physical

Discs/Platters 1

Bytes per Sector 512

Drive Performance

Data Transfer Rate 493Mbps Internal Maximum

100MBps External Mode 5 Ultra ATA

16.6MBps External Mode 4 PIO

 

Rotational Speed 5400 rpm

Seek Time 12 ms Average Read Typical

Latency 5.5 ms Average

Buffer 8MB

Start/Stop Cycles 600000

Interfaces/Ports

Interfaces/Ports 1 x Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) IDE/EIDE

Reliability

Shock Tolerance 300Gs @ 2 ms Half Sine Wave Operating

1000Gs @ 1 ms Half Sine Wave Non-operating

 

Power Description

Input Voltage 5 V DC ±5%

Power Consumption 5.0W Startup (Maximum Peak) (Typical) @ 5 V DC

2.0W Read (Average) (Typical) @ 5 V DC

2.0W Write (Average) (Typical) @ 5 V DC

0.85W Active Idle (Average) (Typical) @ 5 V DC

0.60W Low Power Idle (Average) (Typical) @ 5 V DC

0.2W Standby (Average) (Typical) @ 5 V DC

0.1W Sleep (Typical) @ 5 V DC

 

Environmental Conditions

Temperature 5 °C to 55 °C Operating

-40 °C to 65 °C Non-operating

 

Sound Emission 22 dB Idle (Typical)

24 dB Operating (Typical)

 

Physical Characteristics

Form Factor 2.5" Internal

Dimensions 0.95cm Height x 7cm Width x 10cm Depth

Weight 95 g Typical

Miscellaneous

Additional Information Max. areal density : 70 (Gbits/sq. inch)

Recording zones: 16

Fluid Dynamic Bearing Motors (FDB)

Applications:

 

Notebook systems

External storage

Multi-media

Digital audio

 

 

 

Certifications & Standards RoHS

 

Warranty

Standard Warranty 3 Year(s) Limited

Parts Warranty/Labor 3 Year(s)

 

 

HTH

 

Steve :)