Re: Pismo HD question

[Gary Adams]

I'm surprised I didn't see that when I searched OWC's site. That's a 
good deal. Thanks, Chris.
On Thursday, November 27, 2003, at 04:01  AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

on 27/11/2003 04:13, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

OWC sells its Mercury 2.5" case with firewire cable but no AC adapter 
for
around $45, which sounds like a pretty good deal. I've had lots of good
service from OWC in the past.

Chris


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Re: Pismo HD question

[csean]

on 27/11/2003 04:13, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> The cheapest case I could find was an IoGeer case from Smalldog, but I
> got the Other World Computing case last year for my son and he's happy
> with it... It's $90, while Smalldogs's is $65, if I recall. I'm still
> using a Powerboy (Newmotion Tech) with my Pismo.
> 
> Gary

OWC sells its Mercury 2.5" case with firewire cable but no AC adapter for
around $45, which sounds like a pretty good deal. I've had lots of good
service from OWC in the past.

Chris


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Re: Pismo HD question

[Gary Adams]

The cheapest case I could find was an IoGeer case from Smalldog, but I 
got the Other World Computing case last year for my son and he's happy 
with it... It's $90, while Smalldogs's is $65, if I recall. I'm still 
using a Powerboy (Newmotion Tech) with my Pismo.

Gary
On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 12:45  PM, Richard Matteson wrote:
I replaced the stock 10GB drive in my Pismo/400 with a Travelstar 
40GNX 40GB, 5400 RPM model a couple months ago and have had no trouble 
with it at all. The Pismo seems a bit peppier with the new drive and 
it is definitely quieter. I would definitely recommend the upgrade 
(but I would go as large as your wallet will allow.)

Mine was purchased from Googlegear (now ZipZoomFly) a while ago at 
$126, though I don't see that model in their listing now. (Check one 
of the price finder sites for best deals.)

As for installation, it was really quite easy. However, care must be 
taken to seat all connections (particularly the processor module) 
securely. My instructions came from the PowerBook "manual" originally 
shipped with the computer.

Do it! You'll not regret it. Good luck!

Rick


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Re: Pismo HD question

[Richard Matteson]

I replaced the stock 10GB drive in my Pismo/400 with a Travelstar 40GNX 
40GB, 5400 RPM model a couple months ago and have had no trouble with 
it at all. The Pismo seems a bit peppier with the new drive and it is 
definitely quieter. I would definitely recommend the upgrade (but I 
would go as large as your wallet will allow.)

Mine was purchased from Googlegear (now ZipZoomFly) a while ago at 
$126, though I don't see that model in their listing now. (Check one of 
the price finder sites for best deals.)

As for installation, it was really quite easy. However, care must be 
taken to seat all connections (particularly the processor module) 
securely. My instructions came from the PowerBook "manual" originally 
shipped with the computer.

Do it! You'll not regret it. Good luck!

Rick

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Re: Pismo HD question Again

[Illovox Media]

on 11/26/03 7:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

> What is the biggest drive you can put in a pismo?
> are there special drives you need to use?
> I have a 20 gig in there right now, but i want like an 80 gig in there.
> 
> also.
> i read somewhere that you can put two drives in the pismo?
> is this possable? ehat do you have to do?
> 
> thanks
> scotto
> lansing, mi.
> plaztikjezuz.com

What's like an 80 gig aside from an 80 gig?

You can put two drives in if you buy a hard drive cartridge for the media
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Pismo HD question Again

[plaztikjezuz]

What is the biggest drive you can put in a pismo?
are there special drives you need to use?
I have a 20 gig in there right now, but i want like an 80 gig in there.

also.
i read somewhere that you can put two drives in the pismo?
is this possable? ehat do you have to do?

thanks
scotto
lansing, mi.
plaztikjezuz.com

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Re: Pismo HD question

[Gary Adams]

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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Re: Pismo HD question

[James Rohde]

On 11/25/03 2:30 PM, DPrice enlightened us by writing:

>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.

FWIW, that site is now:

http://www.ZipZoomFly.com/

While the Travelstar is a great drive (they show it out of stock tonight 
on that site), is the size large enough for your needs? If you will be 
ripping/downloading MP3s in iTunes, you may find the drive filling up 
rather quickly. My original 10GB on my Pismo did, and I am now looking at 
a 60GB Toshiba (16MB buffer, as opposed to the smaller buffer - 2MB? - on 
the comparable Hitachi/IBM one).

Consider your space reqeuirements for now and a little into the future. I 
find that in the past I have underestimated how much drive space I 
needed, and in MacOS 9.x, I turned off virtual memory. When I go to MacOS 
X, I will need extra space for VM, since X doesn't allow you to turn 
Virtual Memory off and uses it continually (I understand).

YMMV, HTH,

Jim Rohde


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Re: Pismo HD question

[Dan Colwell]

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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Re: Pismo HD question

[Krevnik]

Oooo, Hitachi!

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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Re: Pismo HD question

[Tony Coult]

I have the identical drive except that it is 40g. When my old one 
started to rattle and hum, I replaced it myself with a new one. I 
followed the instructions-with-pix on http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ and 
its worked a treat since. Quiet and reliable, bar one terrible day 
after I'd partitioned the disc and it suddenly lost my second - 
critical - partition. The guy who rescued my data said don't partition, 
and don't as I did run Norton to try and rescue things. So I didn't. I 
now have Panther on it and it's a pleasure. Enjoy! TONY

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Re: Pismo HD question

[Gladys Pérez-Almiroty]

i have 2 of those, one in a pismo 500. very quiet and no problems so 
far.
gladys
On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 08:54  PM, DPrice wrote:
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Pismo HD question

[DPrice]

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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