[Ti] Big Al HD swap.

[Erwin Spinner]

Where did you get the 80 gb drives? What is their thickness? How much $$ ?
Thanks

on 4/1/03 7:59 PM, Steve Wozniak at steve at woz.org wrote:

> Last week my 80 GB drives came in.
> 
> A local dealer got permission from Apple to swap my HD. The technician
> explained a fair number of screws (12-15?) that had to be removed to access
> the drive. The swap took only minutes, so it's not extremely hard. The 80 GB
> drive was thin like the 60 GB one it replaced.
> 
> The 80 GB drive (Hitachi Travelstar, 4200 RPM, 1.0 A) is extremely quiet, in
> the Big Al and in external enclosures. It was thin so I was able to put them
> in my thin Momobay drive enclosures.
> 
> I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my old drive to the new. After starting up
> I noticed that my font selections in Eudora, and Text Color in Stickies, were
> changed. My Applications folder was a mess - the View arrangement hadn't kept.
> This surprised me because I had come to expect CCC to be perfect. Maybe not in
> every case.