Just slightly outside of Applecare, the hard drive in my wife's Rev A Macbook Air has gone bad, and needs replacement.
There doesn't seem to be much recent word on replacement options when I look around the web. On the one hand, I'd think there might be more capacity options as time has passed; on the other, there's almost nothing made today that still uses a PATA ZIF connector, at the 1.8, 5mm size, no less.
iFixit offers a refurbished Samsung 120GB drive for $250, which is a bit of a tough pill to swallow for a system that was sluggish before the drive died.
I'm also seeing "new," apple-branded TOSHIBA MK1634GAL 160GB drives on ebay for a more reasonable $100 or so bucks. I believe these are the drives inside the iPod Classic, and are supposedly compatible.
And then there's the SSD options, which should speed things up, but still at a cost.
Anyone have any recent experience with the above, or know of anything else out there?
Thanks,
Jeff
There doesn't seem to be much recent word on replacement options when I look around the web. On the one hand, I'd think there might be more capacity options as time has passed; on the other, there's almost nothing made today that still uses a PATA ZIF connector, at the 1.8, 5mm size, no less.
iFixit offers a refurbished Samsung 120GB drive for $250, which is a bit of a tough pill to swallow for a system that was sluggish before the drive died.
I'm also seeing "new," apple-branded TOSHIBA MK1634GAL 160GB drives on ebay for a more reasonable $100 or so bucks. I believe these are the drives inside the iPod Classic, and are supposedly compatible.
And then there's the SSD options, which should speed things up, but still at a cost.
Anyone have any recent experience with the above, or know of anything else out there?
Thanks,
Jeff