Hard Drive 12 in Pbook; What brand of

Just curious as to what brand of hard drive is being used in the 12" 1.5 pbook. My G3 ibook is using an ibm and my mini has a seagate. Does it depend on the hard drive size?
Thanks for any help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_Drive
don't look like fusion drives are normal sold harddiscs you can buy from wd, seagate or the likes
likely some of them produce them but seems only apple sell them

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Hi,
For many 17" (or 17.3") machines such as Envy 17, dv, Pavilion 17 .... you can add a second HDD (my old loan dv7 has two HDD's and my current loan Envy 17 also has 2 HDD's). You would need the following kit:
http://www.newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=379
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This image @ http://twitpic.com/14myzk shows the current state of my external drive.
This next image @ http://twitpic.com/14n1hd shows my current Music>iTunes folder on my Mac.
This other image @ http://twitpic.com/14n1ni depicts a song from iTunes that shows the new location of the song file (other files such as videos check out well also).
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After some digging I found what I was looking for. After pulling what I needed to the Trash Bin and opening iTunes everything fell into place. Music is playing fine and space is now freed up on my Mac. [:-D

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