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12 inch upgrade: new HD?
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I am thinking about upgrading the HD in my Rev B 12" PowerBook. I was thinking I would buy the fastest portable drive I can in an external FireWire enclosure, and then swap with the internal drive. I've already done one HD swap in this machine and it was difficult but doable. Can anyone recommend a drive and an enclosure?
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Fyre4ce
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Originally Posted by Fyre4ce
I am thinking about upgrading the HD in my Rev B 12" PowerBook. I was thinking I would buy the fastest portable drive I can in an external FireWire enclosure, and then swap with the internal drive. I've already done one HD swap in this machine and it was difficult but doable. Can anyone recommend a drive and an enclosure?
I cannot recommend to do this. I upgraded my Rev B with a Hitachi 7K60 which is the fastest drive to buy in the moment. It was a disappointment. The drive was louder (a bit) but not so fast that I would accept the noise.
The internal Hitachi drive of the 12 inch powerbook is a very fast one (at least the 60 GB drive). It has a high density and thus is very quick for a 4200 rpm drive.
I sold the 7K60 again and I am happy with this decision.
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Wow.
The drive I have now is a 5400, I think, but when I compared it to the original 4200 RPM drive that came with my machine, it was slower.
Part of the motivation to upgrading the drive would be extra capacity. The current drive is only 40 GB and I'l almost out.
So, the 7K60 was faster, but not enough to justify the extra noise?
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Fyre4ce
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get the new 100gb 5400 drives from seagate...those suckers are quiet and lots faster than the stock 4200.
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NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
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Originally Posted by Fyre4ce
Wow.
The drive I have now is a 5400, I think, but when I compared it to the original 4200 RPM drive that came with my machine, it was slower.
Part of the motivation to upgrading the drive would be extra capacity. The current drive is only 40 GB and I'l almost out.
So, the 7K60 was faster, but not enough to justify the extra noise?
The 7K60 was a little bit faster. But right afer the switch I did not notice any improvement. It could be measured but I did not have the slightest wow experience. Felt as if my old drive just made more noise than before.
IRez has a good point. Buy a really large 5400 or 7200 rpm drive. Thats the only upgrade I would recommend. You may not gain speed but at least space.
I solved my space problems with a large (160GB) external drive. It hosts the mp3s that I rarely use and serves as a backup medium. This one is also 7200rpm but also feels hardly faster than my internal drive. But drive (samsung) + case were not more exepensive than an internal drive.
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