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I really hate to extend this thread, but this is relevant to newcomers thinking of upgrading their drives by buying bare drives and installing them in the plastic cases from their old drives. >done this with smaller drives. Of course you are losing the guarantee, but >if you don't care about guarantees, this is a pefectly reasonable approach. When I did this with my 540Meg drive, the IBM bare drive was $500 and the thinkpad drive was $1500. Thus, by buying the bare drive, I was gambling that the drive would not fail completely more than 3 times in the warranty period. By the way, it hasn't failed yet, so I'm probably ok.:) My advice is to wait for the bare drive to become available. It shouldn't be long. ---------------------------- Victor Kress Geophysical Laboratory 5251 Broad Branch Road N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015-1305 (202) 686-2410 x2489 ---------------------------