7200 RPM HD for G4 PB Ti ??00

Hi,
Are there 7200 RPM internal HD's available for my Titanium PowerBook G4 (400 MHz)?
If so, can anyone recommend a good source?
Thanks,
Wm

Hi, Wm. Yes, there are 7200 RPM drives that are compatible with your computer. They range up to a maximum capacity of 100GB, and they are now hard to find. I suspect this is because a) drive manufacturers perceive much greater demand for high-capacity notebook drives than for 7200-RPM notebook drives, at least among buyers of drives using the PATA/ATA-6/ATA-7/ATA-IDE interfaces (all variants and variant designations of the same basic interface type); and b) apparently it's harder to build a high-capacity 7200-RPM drive with any of those interfaces than it is to build one with the SATA interface that nearly all current laptop models use. 7200-RPM SATA drives are readily available in much larger capacities than 100GB
A 100GB drive is now considered small, so no computer manufacturer today is going to build a 100GB drive into a new computer. Nor is any manufacturer going to build the older, slower PATA/ATA-6/ATA-7/ATA-IDE interface into any new computer. That double-whammy makes it unrewarding for drive manufacturers to continue the production of 7200-RPM PATA drives of the kind you seek for your Powerbook. Nearly all currently-manufactured PATA drives, from the smallest (40GB) to the largest (250GB) units, spin at 5400 RPM, and they are all substantially faster, quieter and cooler-running than the old 4200-RPM drive that was original equipment in your Tibook. Buy one soon, because in the relatively near future you can reasonably expect all PATA drives to become much scarcer. SATA is already dominant, and will become more so as most of the notebook computers in current use reach end-of-life over the next two or three years.
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