New Hard Drive

[mipadi]

Some of you may have noticed I haven't been around here in a while. Well, that's because last week my iBook's hard drive stopped working. The good news is that I got all my data off the drive, found a nice 40GB Samsung hard drive for $86 from NewEgg (it's twice the capacity of the old one, which I wanted to upgrade anyway), and got a guy at work to replace it for me for free. My iBook is fully functional again and has twice the storage capacity, which means I can keep about 19 more gigs of crap on it than was on it before.

[neb1211]

Lol good to have you back.  Hmm it seems that even macs have problems every once in a while as well

But how can you live with only 40gb of storage.  I have about 1.5TB of storage in one rig with only 40gb of space left  

[mipadi]

I don't have a lot of big files. I don't have movies or a lot of games and stuff on there. The largest set of files is my music collection, which is only 2.25GB.

[acemaverick1381]

What model is your iBook? I ask because about a month ago, my friends iBook's hdd just kicked the bucket, but it was worse for him. He couldn't get his data off it.

[mipadi]

It's an iBook 16MB VRAM (Opaque), manufactured in November 2002.

[acemaverick1381]

That sounds about right. What else are the specs? Do you have a 700mhz proc?

[mipadi]

Yeah. 700MHz PowerPC G3.

[acemaverick1381]

Thanks, I'll ask him next time I see him. There might be a chance that Mac made an *oops*, and you might be able to get a refund on that hdd you got. (Unless it was under warranty)

[mipadi]

No, it was well out of warranty; else I never would've cracked it open in the first place.

[acemaverick1381]

Your warranty gets voided if you open up the comp? Even on Mac desktop? I can understand a laptop, but I hope its not the same with the desktop.

[mipadi]

The hard drive on a laptop isn't considered a user-serviceable part, so it voids the warranty.

[acemaverick1381]

Ah, okay. Anyway, I talked the my friend today, and his computer was about a year older than yours, but I am curious about the type of hdd that was used.

[neb1211]

I don't know for sure but it was probably a Fujitsu or Hitachi hard drive.  Most laptop manufacturers use either Fujitsu or Hitachi hard drives.