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    Samsung X1-1200 Bliss - Need Harddrive

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by daveking, Mar 3, 2011.

  1. daveking

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    Hi there.

    I need a harddrive for the Samsung X1 Notebook. It says "Mini-PCI-Harddrive; 1.8" IDE". Spares directly from samsung are much to expensive, because the notebook is already old.

    Can someone tell me, which harddrive I could put in there? Maybe a SSD? I dont like to spend that much on it, and it has not to be larger than 40 gb.

    Some say, that the Dell Latitude X1 is nearly identical to the Samsung X1.

    Greetings from germany.
     
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    This UK site lists many of the 1.8" HDDs or SSDs and explains the connector differences.

    The Dell Latitude X1 was made by Samsung and is based on one of the Samsung products. Read all about upgrading it in this thread.

    John
     
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    Thank you.

    In another community they say that the original harddrive is a Toshiba MK6006GAH, can somebody confirm this?
     
    daveking, Mar 4, 2011
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    daveking, Mar 9, 2011
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    See the not-very-encouraging note in red on this page. However, there are some 1.8" SSDs with the 50-pin connector listed here. I think there is discussion about some of these in the Latitude X1 thread.

    John
     
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    Well thanks.

    But why is there a 44-pin connector in the notebook? Can I hook up a 44-pin to a 50-pin harddrive?

    By the way: the connector in the notebook is so small, that I would try to connect a compact-flash-card to it. If this could work?
     
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    I wouldn't lose sleep over the 44 / 50 pin issue. It is a smaller version of the 2.5" PATA / IDE connector where some of the pins are for jumpers.

    Did you read through the HDD upgrade thread for the Latitude X1?

    John
     
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    Well then I should give the MK6006GAH a chance, which has 50-pins. So it would make sense, that the original spare part has 50-pins aswell.

    I thought that it would have a reason that the harddrive has more pins than the connector.

    I read all the replies on this thread, but it didnt helped. All harddrives mentioned there have 50 pins.

    The connector is connected to the mainboard with another connector which is again much smaller. Maybe there is 50-pin cable instead of the existing 44-pin.
     
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    The 2.5" HDD IDE connector has more contacts on the HDD than on the cable. Four of the contacts are for jumpers. Any of the HDDs / SSDs discussed in the latitude X1 thread are possible replacements. An SSD will provide a useful performance boost and the smaller SSDs are reasonably affordable.

    John
     
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    The Toshiba MK 6006 GAH is the answer.
    Now it works.
    But the fact with the pins is very confusing.
     
    daveking, Mar 14, 2011
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