Hard drive crashed in the powerbook a few days back… Lost about 40 gb of shows, movies and music. Luckily I had important stuff backed up on the external 200gig’r. Thank goodness for ubuntu.
For those with the powerbooks that are about 1 to 2 years old, there is apparently an issue with the toshiba drives dying. Sounds like a power fan is going out instead of the hard drive. If you tilt your laptop from side to side you will also hear it if the drive is getting ready to go out. Bearing issues.. maybe I can get a warranty replacement.
So here I am now, with a new 80gb hitachi 7200rpm drive. Beats the 80gb 5400 hands down. I am a bit worried about heat, but everything I have read about the hitachi drives, they run as cool if not cooler then their competitors 5400 rpm counterparts. 180$ and 4 hours if install time, I am back to the x. The powerbook was really easy to take apart once i had the #6 torx, w00t for apple.
Oh well, back to reloading software.