7200 rpm HDD Choice

Hi, I recently puchased a PB G4 12 1.5Ghz, and I am thinking of upgrading the HDD from the current 80GB to a 100GB RPM.
My question: Does the Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 fit my powerbook?
if it fits, is this HDD a reliable one? or if there are any better alternatives that you would recommend?
Thanks a lot for any helps
regards

OWC has a good selection of drive that fit PBs at http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/ Look down the left side of the page, as arnie mentioned, your PB can't use an SATA drive, which are used in Apple's Intel-based machines. OWC ships internationally, however, you can probably find your choice of drive locally in UK, too.
If warranty coverage is a consideration, Seagate drives offer a 5 year warranty, and most others offer a 3 year warranty.
As mentioned, regular backup is essential. Some take the working drives out of their notebooks, and put them into an external enclosure when they upgrade their hard drives, and use it for backup.
If you scan these discussions, you'll find several who have the Hitatchi 7200rpm drives and seem pleased with them.

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7200 rpm in 13" macbook pro?

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If you are going to upgrade your harddisk, why not upgrade to SSD harddisk. You macbook pro supports SATA II SSD drives acccording to these Specs. SATA III is backward compatible with SATA II, so you can buy SATA III drive if you can't find SATA II drives.
Upgrading to SATA II SSD drive you give you super fast performence.
These are a few Segate SSD drives from amazon, that are not that expensive, I guess.
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Hdd 7200 rpm

hi
I bought the labtop
Lenovo ThinkPad W540 20BG
with hdd 5400 rpm
I would like to replace it with a 7200 rpm
Can you advise me how I can buy model
thank you
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5400rpm and 7200rpm drives are "spinners", with round magnetically coated platters that actually mechanically spin around a hub. Magnetic read/write heads hover over the platters to perform read and write functions for the data bytes as they pass under the heads.
An SSD ("solid state drive") is like a flash card for you camera, or RAM for your computer, but manufactured to be a complete and total substitute for your hard drive. An SSD has no moving parts at all. It is simply digitally addressable memory accessbile for read/write through pure electronics, but which looks to Windows as if it were functionally a hard drive. But there are no mechanical moving parts at all.
Obviously there are huge performance improvements over "spinners", since it's all solid-state electronics providing the capacity and functionality of a hard drive. Looks identical.
Also there is 100% silence, since there are no moving parts or spinning. Almost no heat generated. Fits in the same drive bay as your "spinner" does, so it's really just exactly as you'd expect... a solid-state hard drive (SSD).
I recommend you look into Samsung Pro or EVO products, in the price range you might consider for the storage capacity you're interested in. Or, you can examine other manufacturers SSD's as well.

MacBook HDD 5400 RPM or 7200 RPM

I was thinking about buying:
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does it matter if they are 5400 or 7200 RPM. Which one is better for a MacBook?
Also should I buy one now. I plan to get Apple Care. Lots of people are really negative about the quality of them and it makes me want to wait should I?

From my personal experience its hard to recommend a macbook to anyone for fear of condemning them as well. apple seems to be fixing the problem, and my RSD'ing macbook has been dealt with and is now working rather well. if you get it directly from apple you should get the latest build week which should have a lesser chance of going ape on you.
anyway, i too was thinking of getting a different HD for my blackbook, and i was considering a 7,200 RPM HD from otherworldcomputing. but i also realize that i probably wont get much out of the higher spindle speed because i dont edit movies nor do i dabble around with music editing. so unless you plan on dealing with large high capacity files such as music or video then by all means go with the 7200, if all you plan on doing is downloading web browsing and other tasks that dont really pull that much on the CPU, then you may want to go with the 5400, mostly because you can get much larger storage capacity up to 160GB as opposed to getting a max of 100GB for the 7200

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