Has anyone seen a 160 GB hard drive for a PB G4?

If so will you send me a link to a site where I can get one? Thanks.

Drive Brand: Seagate
Drive Model Number: ST9160821A (Momentus 5400.3, 5400 rpm)
Drive Size: 160GB
Driver Used: Apple Standard
Mac Model: PowerBook G4
Mac OS Version: OS X 10.4
Reader Comments: I have a 15" 1.5Ghz PowerBook (first AL model) with the Radeon 9700 with 128MB of video ram.
I felt the pinch of only having 80GB of space, since I now use Aperture for my RAW workflow for my Nikon D70s. This ate my remaining hard drive space rather quickly since I have been out shooting quite a bit.
I decided to purchased the Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160GB drive to replace the stock Toshiba MK8026GAX drive. I still have Apple Care coverage (extended), and I didn't want to pay an Apple Certified Specialist to install the drive so I decided to do it myself since I have done arguably harder installs. I'm still unclear wether or not this voids my warranty, but I'm not going to wait around for someone to tell me. (It doesn't as far as I know as long as you don't damage anything in the process. I had apple repair an early Ti PB G4 (FW ports failed) and I had replaced the internal drive already - it was not an issue for warranty repair at least back then.-Mike)
First step was to clone my drive, which should have been straight forward. Unfortunately when I hooked up the new drive to the Powerbook via a USB 2.0 enclosure, I got a lot of beeping telling me my Powerbook USB ports were not giving enough juice (the drive enclosure uses one USB cable for data, and another USB cable as AC power). I had to get clever, and hook up my Powerbook to my G5 work computer via firewire in target disk mode, selecting it as the startup volume and rebooting into my Powerbook system on the G5. Once I was booted into my Powerbook system via the G5, I hooked up the USB drive to the G5 since the G5 would obviously give adequate juice. I then could clone the drive using SuperDuper.
I used the guide from the ifixit site. The procedure was very easy, until I hit those stupid tabs near the optical drive. I think I might create a diagram with exact drawings of how these tabs work, because the ifixit guide is inadequate with how these tabs work in the final removal of the top aluminum panel (with the keyboard/trackpad). I ended up bending that stubborn tab out of frustration trying to remove it... but that was probably more related to my uncontrollable excitement of installing the new drive.
I finally removed the top panel, and removed the ribbon for the keyboard and trackpad. Be careful with the ribbon for the keyboard removal, the locking part can be easily damaged if you push it the wrong way. After bending the tab back and putting it all back together I fired it up and immediately noticed how quieter my Powerbook was. Also I was pleased to see around 80GB of space remaining - that's pretty sweet for a notebook.
The next step is to clean up the front of the Powerbook around the optical drive since it looks kinda gnarly and chewed up. Now i have this spare 80GB Toshiba drive in a cheap USB 2.0 enclosure to add to my external backup collection (a 200GB, a 120GB and now an 80GB). Weeeeeeeee

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