ok, swapped the drives. There were only 3 labels I had to break, but that's OK. I need to find something to remove the silver residue that leaves "void" on the plastic. Any ideas?
the procedure only took a little less than 2 hours from open to shut, which was surprising, because there are at least 2 dozen screws, and the splitting of the plastic (bottom case from the top). Only side effect I am having is the sleep light is not glowing a little more (out the bottom case), but that's only cosmetic. Not to mention a few "mushings" of the plastic when I pryed the bottom case off. I did not have a "spudger", whatever the hell that is, so I used a small flat head screwdriver.
Bless those iFixit guides.
now I have a nice 80gb 9really, 74.39gb) to play with, which is nice. Plus I really do see a speed increase going from 4200 to 5400RPMs. and the S.M.A.R.T. stats are nice, especailly the temperature, which gives me a general feel as to how warm the computer is (currently 123.8F).
-digital
the procedure only took a little less than 2 hours from open to shut, which was surprising, because there are at least 2 dozen screws, and the splitting of the plastic (bottom case from the top). Only side effect I am having is the sleep light is not glowing a little more (out the bottom case), but that's only cosmetic. Not to mention a few "mushings" of the plastic when I pryed the bottom case off. I did not have a "spudger", whatever the hell that is, so I used a small flat head screwdriver.
Bless those iFixit guides.
now I have a nice 80gb 9really, 74.39gb) to play with, which is nice. Plus I really do see a speed increase going from 4200 to 5400RPMs. and the S.M.A.R.T. stats are nice, especailly the temperature, which gives me a general feel as to how warm the computer is (currently 123.8F).
-digital