[iBook] Replacement drive for ibook G4

[Richard Clark]

I would go for the 7200 i put one in my ibook g4 800 and have had no  
problems with it.

Richard
On Aug 9, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Steve Jones wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm anticipating buying a Seagate Momentus hard drive for my 1gig  
> ibook G4 (2nd generation, - 512 L2 cache) and am not sure which to  
> go for, - the 5400 or 7200.
> I'd like to get the 7200 as I use the ibook for music applications,  
> sometimes streaming large volumes of audio data. However there may  
> be little advantage if there's a bottleneck elsewhere in the system.
>
> I'm also a bit concerned that the ibook doesn't constantly  
> overheat, as I can push it quite hard.
> The Power Consumption in Watts are: - Read/Write/Active Idle   
> 2.2/2.4/1.3. I think this is a 0.5 watt overall increase on the  
> 5400, which still seems fairly low compared to some others.
>
> Any ideas greatly appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
> Steve