1TB HDD 7mm for X220. Can it work?
Hello,
I own an X220 thinkpad with the original hitachi 320 HDD 5400 RPM (7mm).
I was wondering if the new 1 TB HDD (7mm) by WD blue (WD10SPCX) can work on my machine?
My doubts arise because:
1. In WD site, the specification of the HDD say its length is 100.2 mm, while the description for the Hitachi HDD that I have say it's: 100 mm. Could this new HDD be too big for the x220 or these 0.2 mm are negligable?
2. It's a new HDD, maybe using a different/new hardware that is unfamiliar to my 1.5 year old x220. Will the x220 Identify this drive? Will I be able to install the Windows 7 from the Recovery Windows 7 USB I created using lenovo software?
Has anyone tried installing 750GB/1TB 7mm HDD on an x220 and knows if it worked or not?
Thanks
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Just a correction, the X220 Sandy Bridge chipset has two SATAIII (6 Gbps) interface, one for the main hdd and another for the optical drive. The mSATA is SATAII (3 Gbps).
However for normal hdd, SATAI, SATAII, or SATAIII doesn't really matter all that much, since they can't exceed even SATAI bandwidth.
Most of the current hdd is backward compatible with SATAII and SATAI standard.
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