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Recommended Powerbook hard drives

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gangst

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With the arrival of Tiger I thinking of getting a faster hard drive for my Powerbook.But I have 2 problems:

1)I am looking for a 7200rpm drive, but are they available in sizes bigger than 60gb, if so please give me a link.

2)How do I do a clean install of Tiger, is it as easy as put in new hard drive, boot laptop, insert Tiger disk?

Thanks guys
 
daveL said:
1. Seagate announced 7200 RPM laptop drives; 100 GB is the largest.

2. Yes.
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Really? When did they announce that? That's brilliant news!
 
Personally I would go with a toshiba users report the best experience installing the toshibas at xlr8yourmac.com. Some other drives don't quite fit sometimes.
 
Isn't this Seagate the same one that had several threads about noise concerns when it first came out? The conclusion, IIRC, is that it makes a noise that some found off-putting, but is not dangerous and does not warrant concern (I think its a noise like a little metal ball dropping on a table). Anyway, I tried to find the big thread about this, but I couldn't....
 
mkrishnan said:
Isn't this Seagate the same one that had several threads about noise concerns when it first came out? The conclusion, IIRC, is that it makes a noise that some found off-putting, but is not dangerous and does not warrant concern (I think its a noise like a little metal ball dropping on a table). Anyway, I tried to find the big thread about this, but I couldn't....
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I have the 5400rpm 100gb seagate in my powerbook and I don't hear a thing from it. Might have been a bad batch or something. Seagate also came out with a 120gb model. Don't know if that is 7200rpm or not. Got the Hitachi Travelstar 60gb 7200rpm in my TiBook and it is awesome. So basically any 2.5" hard drive will work. Always get the fastest and largest hard drive you can afford. Better to get faster than larger if on a budget though.
 
mkrishnan said:
Isn't this Seagate the same one that had several threads about noise concerns when it first came out? The conclusion, IIRC, is that it makes a noise that some found off-putting, but is not dangerous and does not warrant concern (I think its a noise like a little metal ball dropping on a table). Anyway, I tried to find the big thread about this, but I couldn't....
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I've got the stock 100GB HDD in my powerbook, the part number looks like a Seagate. I hear this sound all the damn time. It's really weird.
 
From what i've read, there is a strange noise when the drive heads park themselves which is fairly normal.
 
I'm planning on getting a new powerbook with the new revision, hopefully in June, and would like to upgrade to a 7200rpm drive.

Does that void my warranty????? Is it something I can do myself? I'm no tech genius, but I know my way around a computer.
 
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