I am considering buying the following drive from Googlegear.com because of positive reports on it that I have seen here. I am just making sure this is close to the one reported, if not the same. It is a bare drive. How problematic is that? This is the first laptop drive I have purchased so my knowledge is clearly limited:
IBM Hitachi Travelstar 40GNX 20GB ATA-5 2.5in 5400 rpm mobile drive
Thanks a lot.
DPrice,
On October 1st I purchased the 40GB Travelstar for my Pismo 400 MHz. I got it from OWC and also got a case to use my old 10GB as an external USB drive (although now I wish I had paid the extra for the firewire).
I am very happy with it. Very quiet (my old one was starting to really annoy me with the noise), and easy to install. It was my first time opening up a powerbook for an upgrade. I would not hesitate to do any more installations or upgrades myself.
You can get instructions with pictures from several sources. I printed out 2 different sets of instructions and thought it was pretty straight forward.
Feel free to email me off list with any questions and there are a lot more experienced and very helpful listers here if you run into a problem.
Dan-
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