Yep, the D430 and E4300 each have a 1394 port. The docks for the D430 were about $30 the last time I checked. I bought my D430 as a package from a seller with the laptop, docking station, laptop bag, a couple of AC adapters, Windows XP Pro (best for my programmer software), and other sundry. The 1.33 GHz is the fastest model. The 1.2GHz model was more common. And there was a 1.06 GHz model which I think had a single core.
There are a couple or three different docking stations. The one with the parallel port and a DVD drive built in is the "Media Bay", which is a very flat station like a slice that makes the D430 thicker.
I paid $225 for my lot back around April. Now the D430s seem to be around $150 - $170 but the price has been slipping recently. They were solidly over $200 until a few weeks ago. Watch out for the large numbers of models with no hard drive and no cable/caddy. The 1.8" drive is expensive to replace. The caddy/cable set can cost $35 all by itself, and a 120 GB 1.8" drive is about $80.
I found a 240 GB drive for $130 which I'm tempted to try. The seller claims it doesn't work with laptops, only media devices (iPods), but I think it will work with a sector adjustment tool. The bigger drives have 4K sectors instead of 512 byte sectors (IIRC) and there's a need to put the start of the something or other at the 64th sector instead of the 63rd and that's what the adjustment tool does.
The reviews I've read where folks failed to get them to work are consistent with this hypothesis. The drives seem to format, but won't work as bootable and work in external enclosures. Apparently this is a normal symptom of the advanced mumble formating, AKA 4K sectors.
Still, $130 seems like a lot of money now days for a 240 GB drive... Newegg had a 2.5" SATA drive for $50 with 750 GB the other day.
There are a couple or three different docking stations. The one with the parallel port and a DVD drive built in is the "Media Bay", which is a very flat station like a slice that makes the D430 thicker.
I paid $225 for my lot back around April. Now the D430s seem to be around $150 - $170 but the price has been slipping recently. They were solidly over $200 until a few weeks ago. Watch out for the large numbers of models with no hard drive and no cable/caddy. The 1.8" drive is expensive to replace. The caddy/cable set can cost $35 all by itself, and a 120 GB 1.8" drive is about $80.
I found a 240 GB drive for $130 which I'm tempted to try. The seller claims it doesn't work with laptops, only media devices (iPods), but I think it will work with a sector adjustment tool. The bigger drives have 4K sectors instead of 512 byte sectors (IIRC) and there's a need to put the start of the something or other at the 64th sector instead of the 63rd and that's what the adjustment tool does.
The reviews I've read where folks failed to get them to work are consistent with this hypothesis. The drives seem to format, but won't work as bootable and work in external enclosures. Apparently this is a normal symptom of the advanced mumble formating, AKA 4K sectors.
Still, $130 seems like a lot of money now days for a 240 GB drive... Newegg had a 2.5" SATA drive for $50 with 750 GB the other day.