Needing recommendations for Powerbook HD

My 15" Powerbook Super Drive is giving up the ghost. I would like to stick with an 80G but would like something a little more reliable than the factory model I got with my Powerbook which is just 2 1/2 years old.

Anyone have a link to reviews or have a recommendation for what I might for? I will be taking to a shop so would like to have some suggestions before I leave my PB.

Thanks!

Sorry for the confusion. It is the hard drive. It is for a 15" PB SD.

It grinds and sounds like it wants out. I felt lucky to get the thing backed up in time. I had to hold the PB at 45 degrees and angled forward just to get it to stop the grind.

Anyone? The repair shop will call me today asking for what I want. Any recommendations appreciated.

Passante said:

TitanJeff

From all I read just stay away from Toshiba. Hatachi and Western Digital get good comments.

Good luck with the repairs

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Thank you. Western Digital is the one they recommended. And I am upgrading some ram as well. Then they asked me if I was hearing three beeps when I booted the PB. I told them no. He said I needed a new logic board and that they would put me in a new one at no cost since they apparently did something to damage mine.

I was shocked to hear this. Is it common to have an Apple Authorized repair service mess up a logic board switching out a HD or adding RAM? I thought bad RAM would cause those beeps but he seems sure it was the logic board.