On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:06:17 -0300, inkleput{at}isp.com wrote:

>Ah, now we're back to my original question.  The elementary one referred
>to in the subject line of this thread:
>
>>>>Do most laptops require an adapting caddy to match them to a
>>>>relatively standard set of physical hard drive configurations?
>
>Maybe I should have asked "Do ALL laptops require" this?

At least most of them do. Think of this as of an engineering problem:
one can hardly fix the HDD to any surface in the laptop using the screw
holes found on the HDD. Instead, the HDD is firmly attached to some
enclosure which in turn mates tightly with the rest of laptop.

>It seems odd to me that in this category where space is at a premium
>they don't make the computer fit the drive rather than the other way
>around.

A caddy could be as simple as two rails comprising six holes, four of
them used for attaching HDD to the rails, two more for attaching the
rails to the laptop chassis. This layout is quite compact and was used
in Toshiba laptops of mid-1990s.

IBM's "candy box" used in TP770 looked monstrous to me but I believe
they had some concerns for heat dissipation to justify this design.

Also consider the caddy to be a part of laptop, rather than an extra
accessory pertaining to HDD - the digits printed on it are irrelevant
unless there is a mechanical incompatibility.




 
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