computer blues-completely OT

[thermophile 0]

My hard drive is melting down-I do love the fact that it told me that it's melting down rather than just dying. But this means that I need another hd for my baby. It's a 12" Powerbook G4, the terminal drive is a 5400rpm 60gb ATA drive. so my choices are fairly limited because of it's size and age. basically I'm trying to decide between a new 7200rpm 100gb drive and a 160gb 5400rpm drive, both are Hitachi. Anybody have an opinion on whether the smaller drive would be enough faster that it'd make up for the size difference. or stated differently-is size the only thing that matters?

end of nerd break, go back to thinking/obsessing about immigration

[Earmuffs 1]

Im selling my 15" powerbook G4 superdrive on ebay.

[Dan J 277]

My hard drive is melting down-I do love the fact that it told me that it's melting down rather than just dying. But this means that I need another hd for my baby. It's a 12" Powerbook G4, the terminal drive is a 5400rpm 60gb ATA drive. so my choices are fairly limited because of it's size and age. basically I'm trying to decide between a new 7200rpm 100gb drive and a 160gb 5400rpm drive, both are Hitachi. Anybody have an opinion on whether the smaller drive would be enough faster that it'd make up for the size difference. or stated differently-is size the only thing that matters?

end of nerd break, go back to thinking/obsessing about immigration

Make sure your new drive is also the same connector, even with laptops, most hard drives are now SATA. Unless you have alot of data to store, I would go with the faster drive option.

[thermophile 0]

these little 12" puters are really hard to work on so I'm going to send it to a company-I assume that they are checking the compatibility. I haven't had a hd melt down before, so I wasn't sure what the difference would be between speed of just the hd. as opposed to much faster computer because all of the components are faster.

anyway thanks

[djc 0]

I have the same little computer!!

I'd pick the 160gb 5400rpm.

My hard drive is melting down-I do love the fact that it told me that it's melting down rather than just dying. But this means that I need another hd for my baby. It's a 12" Powerbook G4, the terminal drive is a 5400rpm 60gb ATA drive. so my choices are fairly limited because of it's size and age. basically I'm trying to decide between a new 7200rpm 100gb drive and a 160gb 5400rpm drive, both are Hitachi. Anybody have an opinion on whether the smaller drive would be enough faster that it'd make up for the size difference. or stated differently-is size the only thing that matters?

end of nerd break, go back to thinking/obsessing about immigration

[AUBGER 0]

ummm...yeah

[thermophile 0]

I have the same little computer!!

I'd pick the 160gb 5400rpm.

it's like we're twins separated at birth, hee hee

I'm leaning towards the bigger one

Edited December 5, 2007 by thermophile

[Jaseball 0]

I have the same little computer!!

I'd pick the 160gb 5400rpm.

it's like we're twins separated at birth, hee hee

I'm leaning towards the bigger one

I'd suggest the smaller/faster one and buying an external drive for storage. That way you have the speed+ data redundancy, so even if the new drive crashes without warning you have a copy of your important files available for fast recovery.

[djc 0]

it's like we're twins separated at birth, hee hee

I'm leaning towards the bigger one

Yea, it's like we're each other in a different reality. LOL!

Although, if you didn't have a problem with the 60gig HD, maybe you won't need the 160gb?

I think one of the reasons this little computer has lasted so long is because of the slower rpms. But, I am not a complete computer geek, I don't really know.

I love that little computer. I keep thinking I should get another, but I just can't leave this one!

[PlatyPius 5]

Fact: Hitachi drives suck #######. Seriously, they are total #######. We had like a 30% failure rate at the HP factory with them.

Fact: The slowest thing on a laptop is the hard drive. If you can get a faster hard drive, do it.

Fact: Western Digital has the lowest failure rate of all ATA hard drives. Seagate is second.

Here's a good one, albeit the same rpm as your current one...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822136130

[thermophile 0]

yeah I completely love this puter. I hooked it up to another computer in the lab and ran disk check which came back fine. so I think that I'll wait a week or so to send it in to get fixed-and just carry a small external drive with me where I save all of the stuff that I'm working on as I work. so if it craps out I won't loose more than a few minutes of work. I just can't be without my baby. computer withdrawl, I'll get the shakes:0

I'm actually always out of room-I've got lots and lots of data. so I'm used to running with an external drive-one of my externals is WD and the other is Seagate, no problems with them in the past 2ish years. I often copy 10gb worth of data onto the internl hard drive so I don't have to take an external with me to the coffee shop or where ever I feel like working. so I'm not really surprised that this drive may be dying, 3-4 years worth of adding and removing that much data has to be hard on the poor little thing.

[djc 0]

And I love it even more now that it actually tells you that your HD is going to die, before it dies. Pretty cool.....

[thermophile 0]

And I love it even more now that it actually tells you that your HD is going to die, before it dies. Pretty cool.....

disk utility, permission check is the best. I'm going to send it to iResQ.com-the hd, cloning, and 3 way overnight shipping is $270. I'll let you know what I think of their service once I get it back.