Seriously, I have a 4200 RPM 40GB Hitachi that I got for 100$. This sucker is whisper quiet... My Lombard with the CD-ROM drive removed makes NO noise above the background noise, even when grinding the HD like crazy. So yes, that is the good drive to get.
Bare drives are not a problem, just follow the instructions for replacing your Pismo HD available on xlr8yourmac.com and things will go smoothly. (Took me about 10 minutes to replace) Be careful though, the instructions tell you to leave the cable plugged into the logic board during the replacement, and I unseated my cable during installation, leading to a HD failure a week afterwards, wiping all my data. I would add an instruction at the end saying 'Make sure both sides of the HD cable are SEATED FIRMLY BEFORE CLOSING THE MACHINE. Save yourself some headaches there.
On Nov 24, 2003, at 4:54 PM, DPrice 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.
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