60GB IDE Toshiba 4200RPM 2MB 8.0mm 1.8" MK6006GAH

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I ordered what was advertised as a "new" Toshiba MK6006GAH hard drive from VEMA Electronics. Ordering was easy, shipping was fast. I wanted this drive to breath new life into my old Sony Vaio TR3A laptop. Please note that this is a 1.8" hard drive like the kind that came in earlier ipods. Also note that the drive has a small Apple logo on the label, indicating that it is an OEM Apple ipod drive. I installed the hard drive and promptly installed Gentoo Linux. Since I was suspicious of this drives supposed newness, I installed Red Hat Disk Utility so I could verify it's condition. It was showing Powered On = 286 days and Power Cycles = 10107. That doesn't look like a new hard drive to me. In fact it looks like a pretty beat drive from an old ipod. Over 10000 power cycles? I don't believe this drive will last long. I own drives that are three years old and they don't have >100 power cycles. So I contacted VEMA electronics and was told that their warehouse staff made a...Read more

After hours on the phone and chat with Dell, more emails to suppliers and the purchase of two other drives that did not fit the Dell Latitude X-1 even though Dell swore they would, this one did the trick. The X-1 originally came with a 30 GB drive. After formatting and installing Windows, I'm set. It is functioning properly.

First the battery died on my six-year-old 4G iPod 40GB, then the hard drive suffered the clicks-of-death. The battery was cheap, but this 60GB drive was a bit pricey. Both were very easy to install, though, and now the iPod can hold my entire CD library. If I get another six years out of it, I'll be thrilled.

One installation note, if anyone is buying this drive for the same purpose: one of the drive's keyed guide holes (they're on either side of the connector pins) had a plastic plug inserted that prevented the connector from being attached. Once I pried this out with a sewing pin, everything fit together perfectly.