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post #1 of 6
5/28/06 at 1:21am
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If I wanted to put an non-IBM optical drive in an ibm can you do it?

Can you change out the hard drives with other generic brands?
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post #2 of 6
5/28/06 at 12:44pm
Yes, it's possible as far as I know.

However, if it is a T4x or T6x you'll find trouble trying to get a good ultra slim drive.
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post #3 of 6
5/29/06 at 5:23am
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Can you change out the hard drives with other generic brands?

Yes, mine is a Samsung. Not IBM. Use it for 1 year, then you will get headache. Problems start. I got this stuck up harddisk till i change it back to IBM and everything runs smoothly now.
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post #4 of 6
5/31/06 at 1:15am
Yes, you can use different brands of hard drives in your Thinkpad. Infact, there is a user here named brentpresley, he has several drives available for great prices. I picked up an 80GB 5400rpm drive from him for $85 shipped. I have also purchased ram from him on more than one occasion. I highly recommend him.
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post #5 of 6
6/3/06 at 10:40pm
Non-IBM optical drives are very hard to find that fit the IBM laptops. Most (>99.9%) of the DVD burners out there are 12.5mm in height, but the IBMs use ultra-slim drives (9.5mm) and that makes them much more expensive and harder to find.
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post #6 of 6
6/27/06 at 5:44am
Does anybody have a good suggestion for a non-IBM (=>cheaper) DVD-burner for T43p's Ultrabay slim with larger write-speeds, still having DVD-RAM possibility? Preferably in europe, but US would be ok as well..
Thanks a lot!
Jojo
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