Panasonic cf 18 Hard drive updrade suggestion?

I have Panasonic cf 18 d/e model with 512MB RAM and 40 gb Hard drive.. I wanted to ask that what is the maximum hard drive i can put in it which it is able to support?


thanx

 

My wild guess 250gb but I'm sure it will gonna work and supported.


ohlip

 

ok.. thanx i will try that

 

If you want a little more speed... Try to find an IDE Hitachi 7200 RPM hard drive. They are sized up to 100GB... Though Mnem says that the new Samsung SpinPoint brand is as fast...

 

Hey TB and Ohlip, I figured this was a good place to see if anyone had the same thoughts as I. While current wisdom for some time has been to shove as big a hard drive as possible in the caddy (figuratively), I have another route I have been taking with the last few I have done. Instead of cramming a 250GB (or larger) into the caddy, I have been staying in the 80-160 range and here's why. I know the advances with hard drives, and the protection afforded by a Toughbook, have increased the lifespan of most HDD considerably. However, the chance of failure is still there and I want to try and limit my chances of either failure or some other type of loss to a minimum. Unless you are required to have just a ton of data on the internal drive, I would use a larger external drive to store that data. To me (and in my mind this may be just imagining), the smaller drives still seem to access faster (less data perhaps?) and definitely defrag and AV scan faster (single platter discs seem less prone also). Plus, I can take the data with me no matter which of my TB's I take with me. Also, should the drive crash, or heaven forbid, someone steal or destroy my TB, I have less to worry about falling into the wrong hands or being destroyed. I know with backups, cloning a new drive would not be that difficult, but with less on the drive, there is less to worry about cloning. Am I alone in this thinking or am I completely off-base...or maybe a bit of both?

 

Silver Trooper

The large drives have higher density platters
The higher density performs faster data tranfer rates
And the SAMSUNG HM160HC that I recomend utilizes one platter, which means that there is only one spinning disk and two heads (one for each side of the disk), instead of two disks and fours heads
This should be a very reliable drive



Alex

 

Hi,

I thinkin of putting a ssd in my CF-18. most SSD is sata discs and CF-18 has IDE, right ?! any comments?

Another question is about Bluetooth. How do I get that into my CF-18khhzbls?

regards

 

Lady,

Yes... The CF-18 is an IDE hard drive.

There are several ways to get BT into the CF-18. There is a *pretty much* snap in kit that is available on a limited basis. There have also been a few people modding this into their Toughbooks using an internal connector. The CF-18 already has the BT antenna in place so that makes it a little easier.

Silver... I agree to some point. I think everyone should have an external backup... But even some of the highline IT people I know don't do it for some reason. I normally max out at 160GB hard drives in my laptops. To me... There is litle point to installing anything larger in the Toughbook. I have installed larger per customer request when they needed a partitioned drive or a ton of storage space however.

 

Sorry,

feel like a fool, should have searched the forum before touching all these buttons :-,

 

I upgraded my CF18 when I bought it to have a 160 GB Samsung 'spinpoint' PATA (aka IDE) 2.5" drive and it's excellent. I'll be putting the same type of drive into my CF28 soon as well.

The drive is a 5400 rpm one but I find that better than a 7200 rpm drive since slower speed means less power used by the spindle motor, less heat generated, and quieter operation. Even in a very quiet place I cannot hear the drive running.

Craig.

 

The largest disk that will work in the CF-18D/E is the 320GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue. It is a 2.5" 5,400rprm drive with a 8MB cache and an ATA-100 interface.

The Western Digital part number is WD3200BEVE.