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Largest hard drive?
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What's the largest hard drive, in megabytes, currently or coming soon available for the Powerbook G4?
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by KellyHogan:
<strong>What's the largest hard drive, in megabytes, currently or coming soon available for the Powerbook G4?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Hi Kelly,
60GB is currently the largest shipping drive for laptops... although technology is moving at a rapid pace, so blink and it could change tomorrow... 
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And I'm guessing the 60GB HD is the IBM one? Are there any other brands and are there any compatibility problems with any of them?
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From my nosing around I found that IBM 60 Gig HDD has only 2 MB buffer memory, but I think Toshiba has one with 16 MB. You may want to look into this, as buffer memory may play an important part in efficiency.
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by KellyHogan:
<strong>And I'm guessing the 60GB HD is the IBM one? Are there any other brands and are there any compatibility problems with any of them?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Hey Kelly,
I believe IBM and Toshiba are currently the only makers of 60 GB 2.5mm drives... I'm sure Fujitsu is not far behind them (if they don't already have one). The <a href="http://www.toshiba.com/taissdd/products/features/MK6021gas-Over.shtml" target="_blank">Toshiba drive</a> only has a 2MB cache. If I were to choose between the IBM and the Toshiba, I would choose the IBM Travelstar with a 5400RPM platter speed.
good luck!
dave
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OOPs...I was thinking of the 40 MB Toshiba that has 16 MB buffer memory.
<a href="http://www.toshiba.com/taissdd/products/features/MK4019gax-Over.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.toshiba.com/taissdd/products/features/MK4019gax-Over.shtml</a>
This one also has 5400 RPM. Very interesting piece.
<small>[ 06-19-2002, 09:32 PM: Message edited by: urrl5201 ]</small>
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