300 GB hard drive IN an iBook?

I was just looking at the memory to go website and saw a section for hard drives for ibooks.
http://www.memorytogo.com/e-store/prod_details~pid~86186.htm
Am I wrong or is this an actual 300gb internal hard drive upgrade option for an ibook? If so, how could you get it installed? Apple store? How would this impact the applecare protection on the rest of the notebook.
Any advice would be great. I would love to have 300 gigs at 7200rpms IN my ibook for 150 bucks!
Nate

That is certainly a mistake. As Eddi says, there are no hard drives physically small enough to fit inside an iBook with more than 120GB of capacity. That must be a 3.5" hard drive meant for a desktop computer, but that online description is NOT very helpful!
-Doug

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I'll 'fess up to not being the the sharpest pencil in the box, and I probably made a fatal financial mistake.
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Karen:
The average life of a laptop HDD is 3 to 5 years. Because of the architecture of the drive it begins failing with age, and performance degrades. 6 GB is too small, 10 GB is too small. The minimum HDD I would install is 20 GB, but I think you should aim for something closer to 100 GB. You seem to have the earliest iBook introduced in July 1999 and has the 300 MHz processor. It will support a drive up to 120 GB. Here is a 120 GB HDD that will serve you well for a long time.
I realize that you are anxious to get going with your project. However, I suggest that you take time to research well or you may find yourself making costly mistakes.
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My iBook's hard drive died last week. Now I'm looking for a replacement.
I need to ask... will this (*) hard drive fit my iBook?
Before it died, this were my machine's specs:
Machine Model: iBook G4
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (3.3)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
Memory: 256 MB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.7.7f0
Capacity: 55.76 GB
Available: 30.84 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s3
Mount Point: /
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(*) http://www.alternate.nl/html/productDetails.html?artno=AAAS16

Hi there...
Usually a thin 9.5mm size notebook drive, an IDE/ATA type, with specs
at least the same as the one it came with or to some extent, better. A
few limits do exist, but I am not sure what they are. Some models may
have an upper limit on drive capacity; and other technical details.
One site, with a hardware update page, shows a few brands and models
that should be suitable. A good company to do business with would have
a phone number in addition to their web page; and have a good reputation.
The product in the ^ site link may be OK, I didn't try to read far into it given
the language difference; the technical specs appeared adequate. I'd do
a bit more checking around; and if you have a service provider in mind
to do the work, you may wish to ask them (if an Apple specialist.)
[ Other World Computing - iBookG4 hard drives ]
PS: If all your computer has for RAM is the original on-board
256MB RAM, you should consider adding a 1024MB chip; or
a 512MB chip. You may be aware of the demands OSX places
on a computer and how it uses virtual memory (drive space) in
addition to chip RAM to help run the system and applications.
A fast spinning modern drive, plus more RAM, could perk up
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nlmart, Welcome to the discussion area!
One thing to be aware of is that Apple has always recommended against using the iPod as a system hard drive. Presumably the operation as a system hard drive is more stressful than that of a music file server.
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My screen has broken [liquid damage] and to get it fixed it'll cost £100-£300 and I don't know if it's just the screen gone. It will be cheaper probably to buy a new ibook off ebay and sell my ibook in parts. But I'll need to back up my 60gb hard drive. Firstly, how do I do that? If I remove it will my data all be gone? Can I install that in another ibook g3 [whether of same speed and RAM or not]? The hard drive is seemingly undamaged because the computer still turns on and surely you need data from that to power up - or at least it means the logic board is fine.
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thanks

Steph,
First what kind of liquid? Coffee, coke, wine and the like can be very corrosive to minute electrical traces on the motherboard.
the liquid went onto the top part of the keyboard where the speakers and power buttons are found but may have got into the inner edge of the screen and obviously with that not going on it has broken it.
Not necessarily the LCD but the cables for the LVDS and inverter go through that area. Also liquid in that area can easily find it's way to the logic board and that could be fatal. I intend to post instructions on dealing with liquid problems. First of all iBooks should have all power pulled and necessary drying out procedures initiated before attempting power up.
the cursor is not moving so i guess that has broken and so i can't test if the keyboard is working because i can't get logged on. the battery has decharged itself so somehow liquid has got into whatever powers that up, maybe the adapter port as that's on the side?! it does still power up, i can hear it whirring, does that mean that the logic board is still ok? and when you said that if i have a working logic board i can recover data that way, does that mean if i put my logic board from my ibook into a new one, my data would still be on it?
Your data is on the hard drive.
and with the powering up but no screen image does it also mean that the hard drive is still intact?
Probably. Will it go into target mode as in my first post?
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the OS, or did you transfer your existing information
to the new drive?
I reinstalled the OS and used Migration Assistant to bring back everything else. I guess I could try doing this differently, in case its some corrupt library date that's causing all the problems. I'll try that and post again in a few days.
Strange Disk Utility does not recognize your HD.
Does it only show your DVD in the left panel?
Yes. When I startup from the OSX DVD, there is only the DVD and a 'network startup' option, but no hard drive at all.
Go back to "safe mode". Once there, select System
Preferences>Start-Up Disk. Does your HD appear?
Yes it does.
Have a look at
this Apple article regarding start-up
problems.
Here too.
Thanks for these, but I think I've already tried all the relevant things, thanks to your advice.
Outside of repairing your HD via Disk Utility, or
replacing equipment (eg logic board) either Disk
Warrior or a
reinstall of the OS would be your
options.
Well, I probably can't afford either option, but we'll see how desperate I get. Thanks for your time.

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98% of the drives meet this criteria
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hope I'm not posting a post which is already answered, but couldn't find any appriopriate one.
The thing is I want to buy a bigger HDD for my lovely Ibook. Questions:
1) I looked in "about this MAC" and found out, that it should be an ATA drive. Is that correct? Or can I use some other drives types as well? Can I use Ultra ATA to speed up the whole ship?
2) At what else, when buying, should I pay attention?
3) Is it advisable to buy a used hard drive, or would you strongly disadvise?
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1 - Apple uses Ultra ATA hard drives.
2 - RPM (Revolution Per Minute) I use a 5400RPM in my internal and a 7200RPM for my external. The 7200RPM hard drive I believe run hotter then the 5400RPM. You will need a hard drive that is 2.5" wide X 9.5mm tall. I believe IDE and ATA interfaces are the same.
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4 - Toshiba, Hitachi, Seagate, or IBM. You may want to look at iFixit.com for iBook compatible hard drives.
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