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Highest External Storage Capacity for ThinkPad R40? mutefan 12-28-2004
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Posted by mutefan on December 28, 2004, 3:45 am
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 This will be the final post on my problem of video editing with my
laptop! Since it's running a Pentium M, what's the largest HD
reasonable for this machine?

Thanks.



Posted by Paul Rubin on December 28, 2004, 3:51 am
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 mutefan@yahoo.com writes:
> This will be the final post on my problem of video editing with my
> laptop! Since it's running a Pentium M, what's the largest HD
> reasonable for this machine?

The cpu is irrelevant. You can add as much external capacity as you
want.


Posted by mutefan on December 28, 2004, 3:57 am
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Paul Rubin wrote:

> The cpu is irrelevant. You can add as much external capacity as you
> want.

Thank you. Next-to-final-final question: Another poster on this group
cites an ALi issue when using non-proprietary external HDs with a
ThinkPad. If you have any insights into this (at this ungodly hour),
I'd appreciate hearing them.



Posted by Paul Rubin on December 28, 2004, 4:16 am
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mutefan@yahoo.com writes:
> Thank you. Next-to-final-final question: Another poster on this group
> cites an ALi issue when using non-proprietary external HDs with a
> ThinkPad. If you have any insights into this (at this ungodly hour),
> I'd appreciate hearing them.

The idea of an external disk is you use a usb2 or firewire interface.
The chipset's ATA interface doesn't come into play.

You can get 100 gb internal laptop disk drives these days. That
should be enough for reasonable video editing tasks too.


Posted by J. Clarke on December 28, 2004, 10:04 am
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Paul Rubin wrote:

> mutefan@yahoo.com writes:
>> Thank you. Next-to-final-final question: Another poster on this group
>> cites an ALi issue when using non-proprietary external HDs with a
>> ThinkPad. If you have any insights into this (at this ungodly hour),
>> I'd appreciate hearing them.
>
> The idea of an external disk is you use a usb2 or firewire interface.
> The chipset's ATA interface doesn't come into play.
>
> You can get 100 gb internal laptop disk drives these days. That
> should be enough for reasonable video editing tasks too.

Or for 40 bucks you can get an external SATA enclosure and for another 30 or
so a Cardbus SATA host adapter, that gives you access to drives up to 400
gig.

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--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)


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