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Need new hard drive for older IBM Thinkpad. Will any 2.5 inch drive work?

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sohcrates

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I have found several 2.5 inch notebook hard drives by Hitachi on Newegg. $70 for about 20 gigs or so.

They are 5400 rpm's and 8 meg cache and ATA 6 interface.

From what i can find out, my current IBM drive is 4600 RPM and i *think* an ata 4 interface. It has basically died, as it sits there and makes horrible clicking sounds and windows has mysteriously started losing my profile and not loading correctly.

I guess i'm wondering if a new "ata 6" interface and a drive bigger than 10gb will work on my thinkpad? I assume i'll have to update the bios.

But interface - wise, should a "new" laptop HDD word in my "old" thinkpad?

Thanks
 
The only issue is drive height. It's either 12mm or 9.5mm. Older thicker laptops tend to use the 12mm standard but they can adopt a 9.5mm just fine. However, you wouldn't be able to use a 12mm drive in a 9.5mm sized laptop drive bay for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, almost all 2.5" drives today come in 9.5mm size but check the specs when you buy just to make sure.
 
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