A1200 Harddrives

[melott]

I have an A1200............
I want to put a harddrive in it.
I was looking on EBay for a drive.
The question is.. what kind of drive?
I know its a 2 1/2 drive.
Will just about any laptop drive work ?
Or do I need something special?

What do I need here...........

[Damion]

Any laptop (2.5") drive should work, but the best one I had was an
IBM "TravelStar" series (dead-silent).

[darksun9210]

yeah any 2.5inch laptop drive, really for best fit in a standard A1200 case.

and i'll go with the IBM travelstar drives! dead quiet!

s'pose i'm kinda lucky cos i work in support, and when ever someone wants their laptop upgraded i have the old hard disk out and put in another one.

got a few IBM drives 512Mb, 6Gb, and two 12Gb's (one of the 12s is in my 1200 and a couple of fujistu 10-12Gb and a 3Gb hitachi drive. the hitachi drive scared the hell out of me.

power on:-
NREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*CHUG**CHUG**CHUG*EEEEEEEEEEEE*CHUG*EEEEE*CHUG*EEEEEEEEEEEEE etc.

never heard anything like it outside of a full height 3.5inch seagate barracuda ultra scsi drive (comes with own cooling fans)

some weird reason tho, maybe its OS3.0, but can only reference the first 8Gb of the disk?

[Linchpin]

I used a Sygate laptop drive in my amiga a1200 - worked lovely for ages untill i towered it, now runs on full size HDD's.

At least i never had any problems with it...