I need to replace the internal hard drive on my PB G4

My hard drive finally bit the dust and I had to remove it to send it to someplace to hopefully recover the data.
Meantime, I want to get a drive quickly to install it and put a new system on it in anticipation of receiving my data.
What are the specs/interface for the PB G4 hard drive and what are the good drives to look for and the ones to avoid for it?
thanks,
Shel

What are the specs/interface for the PB G4 hard drive and what are the good drives to look for and the ones to avoid for it?
You can use any parallel ATA or ultra ATA or ATA-6 drive (all basically the same thing). You cannot use a serial ATA or SATA drive, like those used in the current Apple notebooks. You have a choice of drive speed, 5400rpm is pretty much the standard today or 7200rpm, which carries a price premium for the speed. Seagate comes with a 5 year warranty, if that's a consideration. Most others are 1 or 3 years. If you scan the forums, people seem to like Hitachi and Seagate, although there are other brands that work well too. Some people shy away from Toshiba notebook drives, although you can find posts where the owners have had success with them (they have been a particular problem on 12" Powerbooks).
Two online sources are OWC at http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/ and http://www.newegg.com/ .

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