hard disk vendor: ibook g4 replacement hard drive

[mattsajay]

my ibook g4 hard drive died a few weeks ago. i am doing the homeowrk for replacing the hard drive. what vendors / online stores and hard drive makes do you guys recommend?

[aelegg]

I read through this procedure once and I think I counted up 52 different screws to remove (and many can't be mixed). There are other posts about good drives to choose.

http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/iBook-G4-14-Inch/Hard-Drive-Replacement/84/15/

[hmai18]

Vendor: www.newegg.com
Recommended drives: SilentPC Review (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article29-page2.html)

I just put a 120Gb Samsung in my iBook and it's damn quiet.

[mattsajay]

theres no way, i will take the risk of doing that on my own. i would rather pay a hundred bucks! (well otherwise, i am a cheapster, but not in this case)

i was asking for vendors... i will check out newegg, i have gotten stuff from them before.... pretty decent...

i remember a site that used to offer compatibility charts (i.e. whether a particular hard drive is compatible with an ibook g4) prior to the laptop hard-drive purchase... does anyone remember which one it is?

what is the feedback on " other world computing"?

[Whorehay]

Where could we go to get the HD replaced? I have an iBook with a 30GB drive that I'd like to upgrade but man, that process looks absolutely daunting.

[OrangeSVTguy]

If you want to have it replaced, I'd could do it for you. I've done it plenty of times already :D

I think the G4 ibooks were not limited to the 120gb hard drive the G3s were so you can get as big of a hard drive as you can afford or find. It has to be an IDE/ATA drive though. SATA drives like in the MB/MBPs will not work.

[dborja]

It's really not as hard as it looks on iFixit. The trick is having the right screwdrivers...

I replaced mine with a WD 120GB Scorpio and it works fine.

[mattsajay]

yeah, you bet the process looks daunting... i will not risk it trying it myself..

TOSHIBA MK1234GAX 120GB 5400 RPM ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive - OEM

or

HITACHI Travelstar 5K160 HTS541616J9AT00 (0A28419) 160GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive - OEM