From: Emanuel Brown (epbrown_at_enteract.com)
Date: Sat May 30 1998 - 01:54:27 EDT
On Fri, 29 May 1998 21:53:08 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>I had a thought...in terms of hard disk upgrade for 701Cs what are available
>in terms of speeds/access times? I haven't seen any talk of drive speed or
>quality, just size.
There aren't many options re. speed, I think. The average 2.5"
drive has a seek time of 12-13ms and an rpm of 4200 or so, originally
because a faster drive would require more power and dent battery life.
There are new drives that are faster (Ultra-ATA or DMA or something),
but I don't know if they're compatible with something like the 701 or
what sort of power requirements they have. I *do* know that the spec
for laptop drives changed the position of the screw holes. Instead of
a four sort of square in the middle, new drives have them at the
corners of the drive.
epbrown
PS: Did I mention I've got a 701 again? I bought one from Surplus
Direct, then got another for much less for a friend off eBay today :-(
Stop by the Portable Computing Center for
the comp.sys.laptops FAQ.
http://www.enteract.com/~epbrown
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