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Hello,
I just joined this mailing list and I haven't seen part I of your
comments. Since I have been looking for a HD upgrade for my TP755C,
I've been shopping around and asking around as you have been.
It almosts seems as though you've been quoted a price for a SCSI 3.5"
drive, meant for a desktop. The price you mentioned is at least $100
below the cost of any other drive that I've encountered that is claimed
to be usable with a TP.
I've seen bare, (sans caddy) 1.2 GB, 2.5" drives manufactured by Toshiba
or Seagate advertised by Insight, Inc., for about $400 each.
Simple Technology sells 1.0 GB drives in a caddy designed to fit the TP
for about $450. I tried one and returned it because it couldn't
power-down during APM-suspend under Win95. I've seen several complaints
about APM incompatibilities in the archives to this mailing list. The
only success I've seen mentioned was with an individual who installed a
third-party drive in a third-party caddy in a TP755CE (my memory is
fuzzy on this; look in the 1996 archives and search for 'hard' or 'HD'
if you are interested).
Sigma, Inc., the OEM supplier of TP drives, sells a 1.0 GB drive for
$700, and the drive falls under existing IBM service contracts. Sigma
also warranties the drive beyond IBM contracts for a total of three
years of drive-ownership. They also sell a 1.4 GB drive for $800, which
is marginally better in price/capacity.
There is some useful information on hard drive replacement at the
web-site for the Road Warrior Outpost (please cf. Yahoo).
Hope this helps...
John
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Subject:
HD replacement (part II)
Date:
Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:34:42 -0500
From:
Paulo Magalhaes <pm119@columbia.edu>
To:
THINKPAD@CS.UTK.EDU
Thank you for all the replies to my query.
I have been quoted $339 for a 1.2 GB IBM disk by Bason Computers
(1-800-400-9064). Has anyone dealt with them before? Doesn't this
price sound a little too cheap?
Again, many thanks for your comments.
--
Paulo Magalhaes * Dept. Neurology, Columbia University, New York, USA
voice: (+1 212) 305 1665 ** fax: ... 305 3986 ** pm119@columbia.edu