looking for advice on iBook disk drive 3

Posted by paul on September 26, 2005

I want to both increase the storage on my iBook and improve it’s performance: a bigger, faster drive will do that.

But what to get? Hitachi TravelStars look like the best thing going. Anyone have any experience with them? Recommendations on something else?

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  1. Frank Sep 30, 2005 08:48

    Paul,

    You probably know, but Hitachi took over IBM’s drive business, so these are what used to be called IBM TravelStar drives. I’ve upgraded at least 4-5 PowerBooks with them, and had very good results in all cases.

    One thing to consider is how you’re going to transfer the information from the old to the new drive. I have a PC Card and that came with one of the drives, and lets you have both drives mounted at the same time.

  2. paul Sep 30, 2005 17:12

    I didn’t but I confess I wondered if there was some licensing deal or something, what with them having the same name.

    Glad to know they are a good choice. I’ll follow up and see what I can find.

  3. Frank Oct 03, 2005 10:40

    Also, you would be supporting the company responsible for the most culturally tone-deaf meme since Mahir.

    In case it gets mangled, here’s the link:
    http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.92a9817d39355921fce80bd5eac4f0a0/

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