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Hard drive recommendations for 12" PB G4 (DVI)? - StingMe - 09-26-2008
Looking for a replacement drive for a 12" PowerBook G4 (DVI) - gotta be IDE/ATA (not SATA), 5400RPM, 80-160 GB, fast, quiet, cool, & reliable. What drive(s) should I consider?
Western Digital Scorpio?
Seagate Momentus?
Hitachi Travelstar?
Samsung SpinPoint?
Toshiba?
Looks like our sponsor carries almost all of them...http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Upgrades.cfm?Model=202&Type=Data%20Storage&sort=pop
What say you?
Re: Hard drive recommendations for 12" PB G4 (DVI)? - kj4btkljv - 09-26-2008
Whatever's on sale!
As far as I know, those are all good drives.
Jeff
Re: Hard drive recommendations for 12" PB G4 (DVI)? - C(-)ris - 09-26-2008
I always just go for whichever one is the cheapest unless you really need the 7200 RPM speed.
Re: Hard drive recommendations for 12" PB G4 (DVI)? - Silencio - 09-26-2008
Are there even any 7200RPM 2.5" IDE drives available anymore? I had a hard time locating one when I last looked.
What I would do is just get the 250GB, 5400RPM Western Digital Scorpio drive. It's under $100 now and is the largest 2.5" IDE drive you can get. Works like a top in my 1.33GHz 12" PowerBook and provides a nice little boost in responsiveness over my old 4200RPM drive, not to mention about 180GB more free space.