[P1] OK drive for icebook swap?

[Joe Jones]

Any 2.5" notebook drive that is smaller than 10mm high will fit - ie, 
any 9.5mm "superslim" model.

I put an IBM Travelstar 40GNX in my 600Mhz iBook with no problems.

You can see some pictures of the surgery here:

http://jo-ham.com/display.php?year=2003&month=3&day=22

Google for "ibk_dusb.pdf" for Apple's service manual for the iBook. It 
has excellent instructions and has screw templates so you can keep 
track of the ones you've removed.

You'll have to remove about 36 screws of varying size to get to the 
hard drive, including three Torx T8 size screws on the bottom of the 
case, and four Torx T8 grommets that fit on the side of the hard drive, 
allowing it to rest in the shock mount - see the pics on my site.

It's well worth doing the upgrade. I now have twice the space, four 
times the drive cache and a much quieter HD. Battery life has not been 
affected as far as I can tell.

Joe

On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 04:13 America/Chicago, PaulKurtz III wrote:

> I'm considering the daring task of upgrading my Icebook HD.  I've been
> looking at this fluid bearing 40gb Toshiba drive.
>
> http://www.googlegear.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101606
>
> It's 5400rpm, but I'm hoping the fluid will offset the extra heat.  
> It's
> hard to beat the extra speed AND 16MB of cache.  Anyone have any 
> advice,
> cautionary tales, or other info on the subject?  Also, how might it 
> affect
> battery life?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
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