V6V hard drive space limitation + RAM upgrade

The manual stated that the maximum hard drive that the V6V can handle is 80GB. Is that true? What if I want to upgrade my 60GB 5400 rpm to 100GB with 7200 rpm?

In addition, I was wondering if it is possible to upgrade my memory with the 533 MHz variant? I currently have 2 x 256MB 400 MHz installed. If I swap one of these with 1GB 533MHz, will it work?


Thanks in advance.

 

When the V6v manual was written, that's all there was...... and a model's limitations are always limited to whatever could be tested with the unit... it's a legal thing and just incase it something that isn't out yet won't fit... they don't get caught in a bad position.

For a fact, I can tell you a 100gb/7200rpm pata drive will work and work fine. Likewise, a 160gb/5400rpm perpendicular recording pata drive will also work....... For that matter, a 200rpm/4200rpm would work as well.

Your system will work with 533mhz in it, it'll just clock it down to 400mhz. I believe there was a bios update to allow the system to run at it's full 533mhz, but you may have even bought the system with that bios on it (as long as it wasn't bought within the first month or so of it's release). You can put 2 x 1gb DDR2 533 sticks in there and run them just fine.