There is nothing wrong with laptop drives if they are good to start with. I have 2 Lombards, a Wallstreet and a Pismo ( plus a host of older 1400, 2400and duos etc ) which all have either new or secondhand drives from Seagate, Toshiba or Fujitsu ( I don't like IBM laptop drives - bad experiences with a couple of friends laptops that I upgraded). These have all been solid performers over the years. My Pismo ( 500MHz 512mb Ram and OS10.4.11) is my main work machine so I bought a 7200 RPM Seagate 60Gb HD for it and it made a noticeable speed difference. Most of the other drives have been bought cheaply secondhand. SSD's look good and their performance seems to be great but they are very expensive. I bought a PCMCIA to CF adapter ( $6 ) plus an 8Gb PNY Compact Flash card ( $22 ) that I partitioned into two and put OS9 and Tiger on as an emergency boot drive and it works well. It is probably on par speed wise as the existing hard drive in the Pismo.
Stewie > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:46:17 -0700 > Subject: Any recommendations for a solid state drive for a Pismo? > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > I bought a used 500 MHz Pismo with a dead hard drive, and I'm thinking > of replacing it with a solid state drive. I don't need one that's very > big - 16 GB or so should be fine. > > I'm not very familiar with SSD's and it seems like it could be tricky > to find one that's a reasonable price and works well. I'm hoping that > some people here have enough experience with them to make some > recommendations. > > Conventional laptop drives seem to me to be less than durable, but I'm > also open to recommendations for one that is. > > _________________________________________________________________ Take a peek at other people's pay and perks Check out The Great Australian Pay Check http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157639755/direct/01/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
