I recommend Fujitsu, Samsung, WD, or Seagate. Seagate has a 7200RPM model, if you really want to get one. Between 54 and 7200, it won't make a super noticeable impact on speed (unless you do lots and lots of very disk-intensive work like A/V stuff), but it will often subtract at least 15 minutes from your battery life.
Hitachi tends to have high failure rates after about two years, especially if you actually use your computer for things besides email and light web browsing. Toshiba drives are kind of weak, they also tend to unload the drive's heads after five seconds (other drives use ten seconds or so), and it occasionally affects performance when watching compressed movies off of them.
Be sure to choose at least a 5400RPM model, and be 100% sure to choose an ATA drive, not one of the SATA models.
My iBook G4's original Fujitsu drive is still going strong two years later, still quiet and reliable. I replaced the slow Toshiba drive in this iBook 800 with a 5400RPM Samsung Spinpoint not too long ago. Though it's slightly warmer than the old Toshiba, it's almost totally silent (unlike the Toshiba), and its performance is noticeably better.
As for taking the iBooks apart, it's not quite 100 screws, it's closer to 50, though it's still a pain to do such a simple chore. I recommend doing it yourself, though, as I've seen too many iBooks coming from an Apple service program with noticeable cosmetic blemishes or missing/strpped screws.
Hitachi tends to have high failure rates after about two years, especially if you actually use your computer for things besides email and light web browsing. Toshiba drives are kind of weak, they also tend to unload the drive's heads after five seconds (other drives use ten seconds or so), and it occasionally affects performance when watching compressed movies off of them.
Be sure to choose at least a 5400RPM model, and be 100% sure to choose an ATA drive, not one of the SATA models.
My iBook G4's original Fujitsu drive is still going strong two years later, still quiet and reliable. I replaced the slow Toshiba drive in this iBook 800 with a 5400RPM Samsung Spinpoint not too long ago. Though it's slightly warmer than the old Toshiba, it's almost totally silent (unlike the Toshiba), and its performance is noticeably better.
As for taking the iBooks apart, it's not quite 100 screws, it's closer to 50, though it's still a pain to do such a simple chore. I recommend doing it yourself, though, as I've seen too many iBooks coming from an Apple service program with noticeable cosmetic blemishes or missing/strpped screws.