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Help- New Hard Drive for my Powerbook

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Big Bone

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Aug 19, 2009
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I have that drive. It's dependable and fast and that is a decent price for it. You won't find too many drives of higher capacity than this one nowadays. My wife has the 250GB (next step down) in her 12" PowerBook.

Alternatively a few people here have been buying SSDs and installing them. There are a few with PATA interfaces and some have IDE/SATA converters that along with the SSD fit in the drive bay. Generally speaking though, the SSDs are less in capacity.
 
That's a desktop hard drive and it will not fit in your Powerbook. I believe the biggest 2.5" PATA drive ever made was 320Gb. Your Powerbook will work with drives this size and bigger.
 
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I can't say for sure...but

When i replaced the old 40gig drive in a ppc mac mini (no longer own) with a new one (samsung 160 gig) it made a Big difference in overall speed...in fact it made even a bigger difference then when i upgraded ram from 512 to 1 gig....

I live in cdn and buy my stuff from ncix (good prices and local so i can pickup and avoid shipping)

here's there 2.5" ide drives

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?minorcatid=1044&subminorcatid=981
 
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