After the long wait, the 80Gb HDD from Toshiba seems to have hit the consumer market.  Needless to say, prohibitively expensive IMHO, plus will have to wait a couple of weeks for shipment.

http://www.serverpartswarehouse.com/mk80gb1pmrhd.html (NOT WORKING ANYMORE .... I FOUND THIS SITE WITH A GOOGLE SEARCH LAST WEEK AND IT WAS WORKING THEN ... HAD THE MK8007GAH PRICED AT 399USD WITH A 2-3 WEEK BACKORDER)

Ooh interesting… it’s the same height as the MK6006, right?

Chris

All specs are the same including height (8mm).

Yea, but you could just about buy a desktop PC for the price of this one disk drive.

The link doesn’t work for me. Anyhoo, I’d just get a portable external hard drive and also burn my data onto dvds anyways if this hard drives gonna cost so much.

ya that website doesnt even exist at all…....

Ya thats cool but remember this is a ultraportable subnotebook id rather not bring anything but the laptop but if its a small and cool one i guess its alright but i only use 29G anyway and im a gamer heh

Ya thats cool but remember this is a ultraportable subnotebook id rather not bring anything but the laptop but if its a small and cool one i guess its alright but i only use 29G anyway and im a gamer heh

Just to clarify ... the above link is indeed not working anymore (see ‘edited’ note on first post). Here’s another, maybe more familiar, site that has the MK8007GAH listed without a price (coming soon, they say).

http://www.span.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23_504_1801&products_id=6016

Gundam, this is a hard drive replacement for the TR series notebooks that use a Toshiba 1.8” hard drive.  It is not an external drive.  I guess if you’re just using 29gb, the original 40gb may still be good enough.  I for one am maxing out the 60gb as I use my TR for pretty much most of my tasks including storing lots of pics/videos and other docs.  I dont’ see myself dropping 400+ for an extra 20gb, but it’s an idea

Personally I don’t use any of my laptops as my main PC…I guess that’s where some people can run into issues with the original HDD…but I would still think an external USB drive would be portable and cheap enough that it wouldn’t pay to upgrade your built in drive for only another 18 or so GB (after format).

Erik

this 80gb drive + bumping up to 1gb memory would make my TR3A a lifer for me… ie, i don’t think i’ll ever upgrade again…

“640K [memory] ought to be enough for anybody.”
  - Bill Gates, 1981 (it’s wrongly attributed, but fun anyway) :wink:

Totally agree, Drachen.  Althought it will depend on what one wants to use the TR for, personally, with my current pattern of use for the TR, I wouldn’t say my setup is for a lifetime.  I can envision even the most basic softwares like MS WORD developing into massive system hogs in the future that you’d need much more horsepower than we ever thought possible to run efficiently.

[quote author=“Drachen”]

“640K [memory] ought to be enough for anybody.”
  - Bill Gates, 1981 (it’s wrongly attributed, but fun anyway) :wink:

<LOL> Absolutely! You are exactly on point. Keep the good times rolling. The day I stop upgrading is the day I am 6 feet under.—Maybe. Who knows what’s on the other side? Can it be better than what we have here? Maybe, but I’m sure it involves more than 80 G. 

i was on w95 until 2000, on my SR7K (p3 600, 128meg ram) until 2004… there’s no reason why a TR3A won’t last til 2015?  less mr. gates make me :( :(

Lol gates is pretty dumb just got lucky but i hope 80 G start coming frequently on the markey soon

Ya thats cool but remember this is a ultraportable subnotebook id rather not bring anything but the laptop but if its a small and cool one i guess its alright but i only use 29G anyway and im a gamer heh

Just to clarify ... the above link is indeed not working anymore (see ‘edited’ note on first post). Here’s another, maybe more familiar, site that has the MK8007GAH listed without a price (coming soon, they say).

http://www.span.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23_504_1801&products_id=6016

Gundam, this is a hard drive replacement for the TR series notebooks that use a Toshiba 1.8” hard drive.  It is not an external drive.  I guess if you’re just using 29gb, the original 40gb may still be good enough.  I for one am maxing out the 60gb as I use my TR for pretty much most of my tasks including storing lots of pics/videos and other docs.  I dont’ see myself dropping 400+ for an extra 20gb, but it’s an idea

Ya i know its internal but ya im starting to play more games and tempted to try demos and download videos so ya 80G may do me some good we will wait and see on price probualy be 400-500$ :(