Re: Largest Powerbook HD?

2004-06-30 Thread Doug Wilson
The largest capacity 2.5 drive at the moment is the Hitachi 80 gig drive, which is available in 4200rpm and 5400rpm versions. Retail pricing for the 5400rpm version is around the $430 mark, last time I checked. Just think, a couple of years ago a 20 gig laptop drive was pretty big. In

Re: Largest Powerbook HD?

2004-06-30 Thread James / Hans Kunz
i have an 80gig drive in mine 17 book you are better off with an external (firewire) anyway or do you want to loose the lot when the hd crashes?... James On 29/06/2004, at 15:17, Brett Carboni wrote: Does anyone know what is the largest internal h/disk that the Powerbook 17 can

Re: Largest Powerbook HD?

2004-06-30 Thread Shay Telfer
I saw recently (can't remember where) that Toshiba were producing/working on a 100GB notebook drive - don't know if/when it's available though. Cheers Neil They seem to be thin on the ground though. Probably going to laptop manufacturers first...

Re: Largest Powerbook HD?

2004-06-29 Thread Neil Houghton
on 29/06/04 15:17, Brett Carboni at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what is the largest internal h/disk that the Powerbook 17 can take. Probably looking non Apple here. It's nice to have all the MP3's on the one disk. And I should use the external for video editing anyway. TIA

Re: Largest Powerbook HD?

2004-06-29 Thread Phillip McGree
The largest capacity 2.5 drive at the moment is the Hitachi 80 gig drive, which is available in 4200rpm and 5400rpm versions. Retail pricing for the 5400rpm version is around the $430 mark, last time I checked. Just think, a couple of years ago a 20 gig laptop drive was pretty big. In another