The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    any 5400 rpm Hard Drives for X40?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by gmoneyphatstyle, Nov 27, 2005.

  1. gmoneyphatstyle

    gmoneyphatstyle Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    399
    Messages:
    733
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I own an IBM X40 with a 4200 rpm 40 gig harddrive.

    Is there any 5400 or 7200 rpm harddrive compatible with this ntoebook?

    Anybody out there have experience with this?
     
    gmoneyphatstyle, Nov 27, 2005
    #1
  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    4,982
    Messages:
    34,001
    Likes Received:
    1,415
    Trophy Points:
    581
    Nope. The x40s use a 1.8" hard drive which only come in 4200RPM speed.
     
    ZaZ, Nov 27, 2005
    #2
  3. Andrew Baxter

    Andrew Baxter -

    Reputations:
    4,365
    Messages:
    9,029
    Likes Received:
    55
    Trophy Points:
    216
    You'd have to get an external hard drive to get to those speeds, as zazonz says there's no 1.8" drive that spins above 4200 RPM. With an external USB drive you could load the OS on there and force the X40 to boot from it (hold in the Access IBM button on startup to configure your boot sequence prioritization to force a boot from an external drive) to achieve a faster default hard drive. it'd be a pain to rely on an external drive all the time though. it's just one of those limitations of an ultraportable really.
     
    Andrew Baxter, Nov 28, 2005
    #3