August 21st, 2006, 11:56 PM
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I have a Fujitsu Lifebook N3010. The hard drive has crashed and I am going to replace it. The original drive was a 60gb 4200rpm drive. Is there any reason I could not put a faster, larger drive in it? I was thinking about a 5400rpm 80gb drive. Would this be ok?
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August 22nd, 2006, 12:29 AM
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I did the same thing with my IBM T41 a couple months ago (before I got my T60p that is!).. and it worked fine.
I am not sure if it work for you though.. do you know what chipset it has in it?
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August 30th, 2006, 02:27 PM
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I don't see why it wouldn't. But even if you can't use a higher capacity, I don't see why you couldn't use a faster RPM model.
With the higher RPM, you have to be careful of heat.
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August 30th, 2006, 03:10 PM
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you should be fine aside from a slight heat increase as long as you use the same connector. I'm assuming you have the standard laptop ATA connection and not SATA, so ensure that the new drive is the same connection...you should see a SLIGHT performance increase with the quicker drive..good luck..
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September 2nd, 2006, 05:53 PM
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I have done the same upgrade on several laptops. Watch out for heat, if the laptop is already running preety hot, you may want to stick with a 4200 rpm HD.
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