[OmniBook] Omnibook hard drive upgrades

[Axeros]

For anyone interested in upgrading their omnibook hard drives, it took a
while to get around to it, but I have finally upgraded mine in my
omnibook xe3 and xe4100 laptops. For both machines I used 160GB Western
Digital Scorpio 2.5" hard drives with the EIDE interface, model code
WD1600BEVE. Note, that WD also make SATA versions of the Scoprio drives,
e.g. code WD1600BEVS for the 160GB model, which will not fit these machines.

Axeros wrote:
> After reading up on IDE/ATA/S-ATA I think you're right. SATA doesn't 
> seem to be compatible with ATA - the SATA/ATA adapters I found on eBay 
> are more than just socket converters but actually small circuit 
> boards. Looks like the XE3 is showing its age! I'll just have to stick 
> with the older models - the Hitachi TravelStar 5K100 with is an 
> ATA-100/PATA drive with 100GB. I guess that's about the limit for ATA 
> drives.
>
>
> Jogi Hofmüller wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> * Axeros <axeros at web.de> [2007-02-27 11:58]:
>>  
>>  
>>> Hitachi currently offer the Travelstar 5K120, a 120GB SATA hard 
>>> drive. There's also the 5K160 at 160GB.
>>>     
>>
>> I would say this does not work, unless you have a notebook with SATA
>> controller. AFAIK Omnibook XE3 series is shipped with IDE controlers.
>> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>>
>> What I was reffering to in my last e-mail is that I used bigger disks
>> than the original one (30G AFAIR). Don't know about any size limitations
>> here.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> j.
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