[iBook] Clamshell hard drive

[Jonathan Fletcher]

The 10 gig is, in all probability, a 4200 RPM. You can get cheap 
(relatively) 4200 RPM 40 gig drives that will actually be slower 
because of the greater size, although you might not notice it. The 
solution would be to get a 5600 RPM drive. That would improve the drive 
access side of your experience quite a bit. The cache size (on the 
drie) also makes a noticeable difference, so more cache would help, 
too, if you end up with a choice.

The other speed tweak would be to max out the RAM (always a good idea, 
especially if you are going to try to put OS X on that puppy).

Check out these pages for details of what you can do:

<http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ibook/stats/ibook_se_466.html>

<http://www.lowendmac.com/pb2/ibook-se2.shtml>

j.

On Apr 2, 2005, at 10:26 AM, "Matthew Faulds" <mattfaulds at hotmail.com> 
wrote:

> Hi Listers
>
> I'm considering dropping a 40GB HD into a 466 firewire clamshell. Does
> anyone know what speed the standard 10GB drive runs at and whether I'd 
> see
> any improvement with a newer 40GB one? Also, has anyone done the same 
> thing?
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt

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