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    WTB: Your old IDE 2.5 hard drive

    Discussion in 'ToughBook Buy Sell and Trade Forum' started by Springfield, Feb 12, 2012.

  1. Springfield

    Springfield Notebook Deity

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    Looking for a few 30-80 GB IDE 2.5-inch laptop drives.

    If you upgraded and want a few bux for that small old Hitachi, Toshiba, or Fujitsu hard drive please send me a PM or email with your asking price.
     
    Springfield, Feb 12, 2012
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    Springfield Notebook Deity

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    Or trade for parts. Need anything from a CF-27, CF-28. CF-29, or may be T2 or T4 series? Power adapter?
     
    Springfield, Feb 18, 2012
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    Springfield Notebook Deity

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    Still looking ..... :)
     
    Springfield, Mar 15, 2012
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    pacman1213 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a few... some 40, 60 and i think i have an 80 as well but will need to check...
    Im always looking for cf-28 parts... what do you have?

    Andre
     
    pacman1213, Mar 28, 2012
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  5. Springfield

    Springfield Notebook Deity

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    Have several parts units and additional parts, so pretty much everything: chassis, motherboards (800 MHz), displays, keyboards, port covers, HD caddies, several batteries. Shoot me a PM with what you're most needing and some trade suggestions.

    Thanks!
    -Ken in FL
     
    Springfield, Mar 28, 2012
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  6. DonTomio

    DonTomio Newbie

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    Still looking for hard drives? I have a CF-51. If you can tell me the proper hard drive to get for upgrade you can have the old one in exchange. It has a 60GB and I want to at least go to a 160GB or more. Please advise.
    Thanks
     
    DonTomio, May 10, 2012
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  7. Pareto Optimal

    Pareto Optimal Notebook Consultant

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    Pareto Optimal, May 10, 2012
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    Pareto Optimal Notebook Consultant

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    I would recommend the WD 160GB. I believe they are most popular now for such upgrades. Hitachi used to be the most popular. I've had two Hitachi and one WD. A friend has a Hitachi. Mine are 40GB or smaller. My friend's is an 80GB. I think my WD runs quieter, cooler and maybe faster than my Hitachi or it just seems that way to me. I have not had Samsung PATA. I did have a Samsung SATA some years ago and I've used Samsung 3.5 SATA in desktops that I liked. You'll probably be just as happy with WD, Hitachi or Samsung. Going higher than 160GB would be a large increase in price unless price is not a factor for you. You only need enough room to hold your OS and APPS. You can always use external HDDs, thumbdrives and cloud storage as well as network connections to move data around between computers, long term storage and archiving.

    I would be interested in your 60GB as I have a CF-51 Pentium-M without a HDD. Thank you.

    Sincerely,
    Shawn
     
    Pareto Optimal, May 10, 2012
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  9. Springfield

    Springfield Notebook Deity

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    The Western Digital that Pareto Optimal recommended is a good choice.

    Would NOT recommend the Samsung. Those were my favorite drives until about 6-8 months ago. Then many people started reporting defects with new Samsung drives, something must have gone bad at the Samsung factory. Then they were bought by Seagate. I hate Seagate drives -- I've had more Seagate drives fail on me than all other brands put together.

    You will be happy with the WD drive. And although I could use another PATA drive, if you're feeling generous and want to donate your old one it sounds like Pareto Optimal needs it more than me ;)
     
    Springfield, May 10, 2012
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  10. toughasnails

    toughasnails Toughbook Moderator Moderator

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  11. mnementh

    mnementh Crusty Ol' TinkerDwagon

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    The issues with the Samsung 160GB HDDs are pretty well documented here on the forum; not a quality issue, but a BIOS compatibility issue. I have one of the older ones in my CF-29 and couldn't be happier with it.

    I'm seeing a lot of this with recent drives from all manufacturers; it appears that pretty much everybody who's using "Perpendicular Recording Technology" to increase platter storage density are having increased "premature failure rates". I believe the technology was implemented too soon, or perhaps suffers from inherent stability issues they will never be able to work out. Bottom line is, it appears that under constant use they can barely outlast the warranty period; I'm pretty sure that is why Seagate seems to have the highest failure rate, since they were early adopters and carried the technology across their entire product line.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular_recording

    mnem
    Hard. Now drive.
     
    mnementh, May 12, 2012
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  12. ADOR

    ADOR Evil Mad Scientist

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    Maybe we should look for some of those older "dead" boards from a samsung drive to see if the older board will work with the newer harddrive.
     
    ADOR, May 12, 2012
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  13. toughasnails

    toughasnails Toughbook Moderator Moderator

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    I have looked at the boards in the past and they wanted almost what a working drive cost
     
    toughasnails, May 12, 2012
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  14. Pareto Optimal

    Pareto Optimal Notebook Consultant

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    Don Tomio,
    You never asked for my address.
     
    Pareto Optimal, Jun 19, 2012
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    Pareto Optimal Notebook Consultant

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    Don Tomio?
     
    Pareto Optimal, Sep 9, 2012
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    mw4182 Newbie

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    i have 2 160GB western digital 2.5 inch laptop drives id be willing to trade for some ddr2 laptop ram
     
    mw4182, Sep 12, 2012
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  17. Springfield

    Springfield Notebook Deity

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    If you're in the US I'm interested. Please get in touch via pm or email: springfield98 (at) gmail (dot) com

    Thanks!
     
    Springfield, Sep 12, 2012
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  18. toughnate711

    toughnate711 Newbie

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    Hey are you still looking for ide drives? I have 4 or 5 of them that are just sitting in my PC parts toolbox. I'll have to check but I know for sure I have a couple 30GB drives and one 160GB drive I can part with.
     
    toughnate711, Jan 28, 2013
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  19. toughasnails

    toughasnails Toughbook Moderator Moderator

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    His email address is in the above post, if I was you I would send him a email. You will need at least 5 post to PM members
     
    toughasnails, Jan 28, 2013
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  20. Springfield

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    Sure I'm interested if they work good and don't cost much ;-)

    Please send some details to my email (same as above): springfield98 (at) gmail (dot) com

    Also let me know if you need any Toughbook parts
     
    Springfield, Jan 28, 2013
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