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What interface is on your drive, PATA or SATA? Also, see my edit.
PATA.
This was a difficult replacement to find at first, but became easy once I knew where to look. Sony didn't ship a ton of 11.5" Vaio laptops, but Apple did ship a ton of video iPods. Turns out they used the exact same drive.
These machines were built before SATA became popular. I didn't even know Toshi built a SATA version of it, but from external appearances, it appears to be the exact same mechanism, right down to the placement of the vent hole.
Originally Posted by TrickerZ
What about CF drives?
See:
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Sure, I'm aware of the existence of the IBM / Hitachi 1.3" Microdrive, but that was never a "real" product. They were unreliable, slow, never exceeded 8 GB (and that in 2008, when 800 GB drives were commonplace), and failed to gain commercial acceptance in any consumer product.
Originally Posted by codrus
Bah, small hard drives aren't viscerally exciting.
No pictures, alas, but in the late 80s when I was in high school a friend of mine's parent worked for IBM Research, Almaden, where they had done a lot of the early hard drive R&D. You've seen those coffee tables that people make by taking a big piece of glass and putting some kind of support under it, right? Well, her living room had a couple tables like that, except instead of glass they used hard drive platters. Normal-sized coffee tables too, not doll-sized.
--Ian
IBM RAMAC?
In college, I had a couple of 14" platters from a DEC RA80 hard disk drive. I made them into wind chimes. They were impressive, but nowhere near coffee-table-grade.
One of my 1st engr tech jobs was to build/test drive spindles for the RP04 (not my photo):
Smokin' hot... at the time! Why would you ever need more space then that? Interestingly enough, the bearing company where I worked was unable to produce bearings with the required accuracy and so we sourced bearings from a German bearing company...
can i just state for the record i dont like piddles nor do i understand the hype.
Your disapproval increases Puddles' sadness.
I don't know that there's any hype per se, he's just a very tall person with an excellent vocal range, who sings well.
I tell you what I don't get- those videos where a guy smashes food on the counter with his hand, mixes all kinds of disgusting random **** together, makes a huge mess, and calls it cooking. But I recognize that some folks find it hilarious.
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