[Nosympathy]

Unfortinatly the G3 i have only has a 20 gig HDD. I would like something atleast above 100 Gigs

anyone know if this is possable with the iBook G3? Any recommendation on brands?

EDIT: I would like to make clear i would like to replace the HDD with a 100+ Gig hard drive, and am unsure if there are any that size that will fit, etc. Thanks

[Cucucachoo]

Any ATA laptop hard drive will work. I really don't have recommendation on brand. But whatever brand you go with, get something that is faster than 4200rpm. That way you will get a slight performance increase.

I replaced my wife's g3 ibooks with a 60 gig that was salvaged from a older windows laptop. When you go to re-install os-x you will have to run the Disk Utility to initialize the new drive.

The only problem is getting to it. There is a crap load of screws of various sizes that you will need to keep track of. Check out Powerbookmedic.com for a guide on how to do this. It is not for the faint of heart.

[Nosympathy]

thanks, i just wasn't sure because it is such a cramped laptop if regular hard drives per say would fit ok.

Yeah i have had apples for awhile and know they make it hard as hell to get into any of their products. I just needed a laptop for school, nothing fancy. Got a perfect condition iBook G3 for $250 which i'd call a steal. But like i said the HDD was kinda small. (My iMac 24 inch has a 500 Gig HDD haha.) I just figured i'd go ahead and expand the HDD now, so i can keep my music on it too, and then if i sell it etc. i assume it'll be worth more as like you said, its very hard to do much hardware change on a mac.

I might look into trying this once i have 3-4 days off from school and can take my time.

I think i myself might go with a 7500 RPM 350 gig western digital HDD then, cause i have an external 500 Gig somewhere by them i really like.

Yet agian, thank you very much.

[urineanus]

umm as far as I know the biggest 2.5" IDE drive you can get is a 250GB, and it will be a 5400RPM. I work on iBooks a lot, be careful of the dreaded GPU dilemma.

[Nosympathy]

yeah after posting what i did i saw that...lol

but noone else said anything so i was to lazy to correct it. A 250 Gb hdd would be more than enough for me though, so thats fine by me.

you wouldn't happen to know though, if there is much difference between a 7,500 RPM HDD and a 10,000 RPM HDD?

WD has one called the raptor, 150 gb and 10,000 rpm, not for laptops tho. I had just never seen one with RPM that high, and its the only one best uy sells with that kind of RPM

[Cucucachoo]

Interesting read about HDD rpm speeds.

link

Originally Posted by urineanus

I work on iBooks a lot, be careful of the dreaded GPU dilemma.

What dilemma is that? My wifes backlight keeps going out when she moves the screen. I figured it's that cable that they had the replace warranty on for the longest time.