How Big a Drive can a Titanium PB take?

annad · #1 February 25th, 2007, 01:15 PM

I have a 15" Titanium 867 khz powerbook and am about to get a bigger hard drive for it. Is there anyone out there who has installed a 160 gb hard drive into such a powerbook? I am particularly interested in the 160GB 2.5" Seagate Momentus 5400.3. They told me at OWC that you could install it, but only 128 gb would show up. Has anyone tried it on a similar machine? Or is anyone sucscessfully using another 160 gb drive in a similar powerbook?

Thanks for your experience.
Anna

bobw · #2 February 25th, 2007, 01:36 PM

These drives will all work in your model, including the 160GB.

annad · #3 February 25th, 2007, 02:07 PM

Thanks, Bob, but do you know if I'll have access to all 160gb? I was just reading that it needs 48-bit-addressing to access more than 128 gb, but I can't find anywhere that says how many bits the addressing on my powerbook is...

bobw · #4 February 25th, 2007, 02:33 PM

Specs for you machine say ATA/66, so you'll be limited to 128GB.

annad · #5 February 25th, 2007, 02:40 PM

thanks, Bob.