Finally pulled the trigger on 7200.2 and more ram

Ordered another gig of ram, and a 120gb 7200.2 HD for the T60. Should be a nice upgrade HD wise, since the Fujitsu drive currently inside the laptop is bottom of the range in terms of access times and transfer speeds compared to other 5400rpm drives. Hoping for a big jump.

Oh, and rescue and recovery kicks ass for turn around times with HD upgrades. Get a network image of your machine on a gigabit network, slap in the new drive, and restore all the data. Takes about 45 minutes on the old drive, hoping for maybe 30 minutes or so with the 7200.2.

 

Are the 7500RPM drives offered for the T61 7200.2 or .1?

 

I believe you mean 7200 RPM, stallen.

I'm betting Lenovo is sticking with the old .1's probably =[...

I want the 7K200 , or the 7200.2... I honestly dont know anymore which is better (noise, heat, performance-wise)

 

ooops, yeah I meant 7200 RPM

 

200GB 7200RPM looks especially tasty. Now if more notebook makers would offer them.

Enjoy the upgrades!

 

I went for the 120gb to at least match the current size. Going back and forth on if I want the spare 5.4k in a SATA drive bay for the T60, or an external enclosure.

 

Why not just add such a drive yourself? The OEM's will charge you $300 premiumprice for a $150 dollar drive.

 

But I am adding it myself.

 

I think jcv^4 was directing his comment UltraCow, who was lamenting the fact that few notebook makers offer 200gb 7200rpm drives.

There. I used the word 'lamenting' in a sentence. Thank you.

 

All, well then that makes too much sense

 

Ah, don't usually hear "lamenting" in everday speech.

Yeah, I would just buy it after market anyway and install it myself. The reason I was lamenting the lack of 200GB 7200RPM being offered, is that it still would be nice to see OEM's offer the option even though they would probably use their usual markup strategy.

 

Which one did you get? Link?

I just searched everywhere for a Seagate 160gb 7200.2 SATA-300. Everyone is out of stock.

Can you refer me to a tutorial "for dummies" on how to do this.

 

Well the it was hard finding the entire product line in stock, but 80 and 120 seem to be stocked in a few places. Mine only cost 114.99 with free shipping (non-G version)

 

No link for anyplace with instructions, but I will do my best to explain this.

1. Getting a shared folder on your network with available space similar to the total size of used space on your laptop. Inside this shared folder, make a backup folder that will be used JUST by R & R.

2. Use the R & R windows client to do a full backup to a network location instead of local disk. This is where you enter in your network location like:

\\computername\sharedfolder\yourbackupfolder

Then it will ask for username and password as well if this location is limited to certain user access only.

3. Backup now, and dont do this over a wireless connection. It will take forever. 100mbit works well enough, but gigabit is much preferred for greater speed.

4. Sit back, drink beer (or soda) while your system takes for what seems to be an eternity to complete this process.

5. Congraduations you are done with your first network backup/image


Now that you have that base image in place, you have quick access to restore your machine if compromised by a virus, or if you are like me want to try out Vista for a single evening. I can transition to Vista in about 30-60 minutes, play with it for a while, and then restore back to my working XP system in 45-60 minutes.

To do a restore from a network location on a brand new hard drive, you will need to have one of those rescue and recovery startup discs. This is that first disc from any backup to cd/dvd, including your factory backup. You boot from this, select restore system from backup, then select the network location. It will ask you for the direct path which will be:

\\computername\sharedfolder\yourbackupfolder

then your username and password. Click ok, and it will give you a few options of a backup depending on how many network backups you have made. You usually want to select the one that was done at the latest date.

After this is done, you select that you dont want to keep any changed data (full restore), keep your username/password, and let the software do the rest. It will format your HD, and then dump on all of your previous data. When it is done the machine will turn on and seem as though nothing has even changed.

wanring: this was all pulled from my head at midnight, and while the steps are basically all there, the specific phrases and options might be called different things.

 

If money isn't an object, slap a SSD in there.