Elektronkind

This week’s project was upgrading the OEM hard drive in my 800Mhz Apple PowerBook G4. I did it for two reasons, mainly. One was that the stock 40GB IBM hard drive was getting a bit tight on space, and second, it’s performance left a bit to be desired when recording 8+ 24bit/44.1Khz audio files concurrently. I upgraded to a Toshiba MK6022GAX 2.5″ super-slimline drive (60GB, 5400rpm, 16MB cache) and for posterity, I recorded the steps I took to make the process as painless as possible. Read on for details…
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