Mobile Hard Drives

[iratecanadian]

I'm not too familiar with Laptop harddrives. My buddy's hard drive died on his laptop, and he needs a new one. We went to one store, but the guy didn't really know much either. He said he could get a 10 GB IBM drive, a 15GN model I believe. Will this work in all IBM Laptops? Will this work in all laptops period? Or are there many laptops with proprietory hardware.

Thanks for anyhelp!

 

[bozo1]

All depends on the laptop. Most laptops made in the past 2-3 years use the same drives. Older laptops had no standards. Each generation of IBM Thinkpad had a different drive type until then.
MWave has some decent prices on laptop drives.

 

[iratecanadian]

So, if it's a newer laptop, it would be fairly safe to assume that it's the one's IBM are selling, right? I don't know the model number, thats the problem. He couldn't remember, so we're kinda just guessing here.