Highest External Storage Capacity for ThinkPad R40?

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mutefan

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.
 
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?
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The cpu is irrelevant. You can add as much external capacity as you
want.
 
Paul said:
The cpu is irrelevant. You can add as much external capacity as you
want.
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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.
 
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.
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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.
 
Paul said:
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.
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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.
 
Paul Rubin said:
The idea of an external disk is you use a usb2 or firewire interface.
The chipset's ATA interface doesn't come into play.
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He's correct. I assume you (i.e., mutefan) was referring to my
posts. Paul is correct, the TP's ATA chipset doesn't come into
play when it comes to external storage.

The problem with ALi chipsets that I referred to is with the
USB-to-IDE bridge chipset on the enclosure itself and the USB2.0
interface chipset on the PCMCIA/cardbus card.

Sorry for not being clearer.

HTH.
You can get 100 gb internal laptop disk drives these days. That
should be enough for reasonable video editing tasks too.
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But--even given the truism that HD capacity has no correlation to CPU
or memory--would a 400 gig drive be of any use to a laptop running a
Pentium M?

Would there be a lot of difficulty for a functioning moron to install a
host adapter?

(OT, I think I asked you this once before, but were you at SUNY
Binghamton or IBM in the early 80's?)
 
But--even given the truism that HD capacity has no correlation to CPU
or memory--would a 400 gig drive be of any use to a laptop running a
Pentium M?
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Do you have 400 gig of data to store? If yes then it would be useful, if no
then it would not be useful.
Would there be a lot of difficulty for a functioning moron to install a
host adapter?
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There are several PCCard SATA host adapters, or you could use one of the
external boxen with USB or Firewire bridges. I suspect though that the
SATA host adapter will give significantly better performance--some Firewire
or USB advocate is now going to come in here and tell me how fast USB 2 or
Firewire is, and they are perfectly correct that the interface has good
speed, the point that they miss is that the bridge chips seem universally
to suck. Regardless there's not a lot of difficulty.
 
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