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    Recommend New Drives

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Pele, Jul 2, 2008.

  1. Pele

    Pele Notebook Guru

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    My Powerbook has the old 4200 RPM Fujistu MHT2060AT 60 Gigger and the combo DVD-CDRW drive is broken...

    I'd like a 7200 RPM drive, but fat chance if I can find one in ATA-6. Will the interface even support that kind of speed? Anyone experience a noticable performance increase with a 5400 RPM drive?

    Can I adapt a SATA drive into a 1GHz 15" Aluminum PowerBook? The selection of SATA gear is better.

    Battery life is important too. Looking for the 100+ GB neighborhood.



    Secondly, I'd like to replace the optical drive. I've read about the Optiarc AD 7360A. Never heard of that brand though, so I'm a little wary. Any good DVD-RW's and anything I should know about putting one in this PowerBook? I know Apple hardware and laptop hardware is somewhat finicky.

    I'd ideally like to flash it to RPC1 for region freeness.
     
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    Chris27 Notebook Deity

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  3. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    PATA 7200RPPM drives are quite expensive right now as you've noticed. I've used some of the newer 5400RPM drives and they offer pretty good performance at a more reasonable price.

    This may be worth a look:

    Link
     
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  4. Pele

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    Just scored an Apple OEM Pioneer DVR-K06 Dual Layer DVD-RW drive which appears to have an RPC1 firmware available. (Based off of Firmware rev. Q609)

    I know about the prices of PATA 7200 RPM drives. Availability seems to be even worse. I got the ONLY 100 GB 7k100 Hitachi HTS series for my Toughbook offa eBay... For $200 :(

    *sigh*
     
    Pele, Jul 3, 2008
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