I always go to Transinternational's site. Having done an upgrade twice (to 30gb and just today to 60gb 7200 rpm). Only real concern is to take care when removing and reinstalling the daughtercard. Those pins are really small and you can (or at least I did) bend a couple.

Gary
On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at 05:02  PM, Dan Colwell wrote:

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:54:47, DPrice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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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