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H.B. Elkins - 06 Jan 2007 02:47 GMT

Anyone have any suggestions on a good replacement hard drive for a G3 (Lombard)
PowerBook? I'm slowly turning my old Lombard into a backup OS X machine and I
need something bigger than the installed 6 GB.

Probably something in the 60 to 80 GB range would work...

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JohnB - 07 Jan 2007 00:06 GMT

> Anyone have any suggestions on a good replacement hard drive for a G3 (Lombard)
> PowerBook? I'm slowly turning my old Lombard into a backup OS X machine and I
> need something bigger than the installed 6 GB.
>
> Probably something in the 60 to 80 GB range would work...

Go to

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/

Click on the "database" tab and select "drive compatibility". Fill in
the search for Hard Drive and the G3 powerbook and there are lots of
comments on suitability.

I thought the Samsung one looked the best bet but eventually got a
Fujitsu one off eBay (albeit both only 40GB drives).

It is very fast and whisper quiet. Very easy replacement job too
(directions on the xlr8 site)

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JohnB

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Stu - 07 Jan 2007 05:37 GMT

>> Anyone have any suggestions on a good replacement hard drive for a G3 (Lombard)
>> PowerBook? I'm slowly turning my old Lombard into a backup OS X machine and I
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> It is very fast and whisper quiet. Very easy replacement job too
> (directions on the xlr8 site)

I found many of the references on that page were not current and
difficult to get.

I bought this 60 gb Seagate Momentus from Newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148088
It works fine in my lombard.

ATA-6 drives are backwards compatible. If you watch dealmac like
drives show up as specials occasionally.

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jgkfm@thbjnfk.mkhewfjn - 12 Jan 2007 01:29 GMT

ok, wait for it...what did the big endian say to the little endian?

anyone????

> From: Mark Conrad <noneof@urbusiness.invalid>

Big Endian....Little Endian

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