[TriLUG] Failing hard drives (laptops)

[Kevin Flanagan]

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Generally speaking the disks are compatible, you mostly need to watch
the physical size of the disk, some are a bit thicker than others and
won't fit.  Usually this is only much older disks, so you should be fine
if you go with a new one.

Kevin

T. Bryan wrote:
> Speaking of failing hard drives, I have an old thinkpad T23 that has started 
> to lock up randomly.  Looking at the logs shows disk I/O errors, so I'm 
> thinking that the drive is starting to go bad.  
> 
> Now, for my desktop machines, I always just buy parts separately, and I know 
> how to track down compatability issues?  I've never really done any laptop 
> hardware maintenance except upgrading RAM.  Are laptop hard drives generally 
> compatiable?  IBM/Lenovo doesn't even keep information on the T23's 
> compatibility with their current product selection, so I'm not sure how to 
> guarantee that the laptop will be able to fit and read/write to some random 
> vendor's "hard drive for mobile devices."  
> 
> Does anyone have experience with this?  
> 
> BTW, the laptop is happily running Debian sarge.  I'm planning to use g4u to 
> ghost the drive (if I can get through the entire disk without fatal disk 
> errors) to one of my desktop machines so that I can restore it to the new 
> drive.  If anyone knows a better option, I'd love to listen to the voice of 
> experience. :-)
> 
> ---Tom
> 
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