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In message Mon, 26 Sep 1994 14:07:18 -0400,
kress@ctpsun.ciw.edu (Victor Kress) writes:
> OK, I can't live with this 170 meg drive any more, and I still can't
> afford the official IBM prices for an upgrade. There was extensive
> discussion ons this group a few months back about installing 540 meg IBM
> drives from Micro-Solutions in the old thinkpad drive shells.
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> Has anyone had a bad experience doing this?
Just be careful about the price they quote you. Their flyer said $400 for
the 340 MB drive. They sold it to me for $420, and they sold it to someone
else for $490. So tell them up front that you heard they were selling it
for $400 (unless someone has purchased it for less recently). You also
might want to look into the 540 MB drives. I think someone here bought one
for $670 or so. You won't be able to use the full 540MB on a 750 without a
BIOS update whose existence I haven't verified.
> Was the offset-pin problem described by one user ever resolved?
No it hasn't. It doesn't seem to be affecting the drive at all though. I
suspect it may be because I bought one of the earlier TP750s "way back" in
November. Nobody else has reported having the same problem.
> I assume you say goodbye to your
> drive warranty, but considering the price difference, you can buy 3
> drives for the price of one thinkpad version, so I'm willing to risk it.
My thinking exactly. My real gripe is that IBM isn't selling the plastic
housings. First they price the drives so high that you'd have to be either
desperate or an idiot to buy one, then they "discourage" 3rd party upgrades
by not selling the housing. So I've got a 170MB drive sitting unused (I
don't have a desktop system to put it in).
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