SAMSUNG 160GB HM160HC Internal Drive Compatible with Powerbook G4?

Hello, I was just wanting to know before I buy it if the Samsung HM160HC Internal Hard Drive is compatible with my Powerbook G4 (Model# A1106) Aluminum before I purchase it. I will be using it as a replacement drive since the original one has failed.

It should be ok.

Good I hope so!

Here's a pic of the drive that was in the Powerbook G4 just took a snapshot of it just so you can actually see now what it looks like and compare it with that link I provided earlier looks like everything matches and should work though.

It's all good, I know that you PB came with those drives.... it's the same specs.
The reason I can't say much more about it is I don't know much about the Samsung.
I would probably have gone with Amazon.com: Western Digital Scorpio Blue PATA 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM…

I already ordered the Samsung but if it does not work for some reason, Im hoping they will be able to take it back with a full refund. Do you know if Amazon is good about that type of stuff or not? I'm kinda wondering now if I should have ordered a drive that is more well known to work on the Powerbooks but Im hoping and praying this will all work out ok, trying not to worry about it too much. I just hope its stable

I've never used Amazon, because their shipping and Tax to Australia somehow exceeds the costs of the items that I am purchasing.
I was going to purchase the speck case for my MBP US$29.99.
Check this out LOL

As you can guess, I chose not to go with Amazon

I would have gone with OWC or NewEgg, but I'm sure that there will be no problems, as many people on this Forum in the States purchase items on Amazon without any dramas.

Oh wow, thats crazy! Yea I think all will be ok. I actually brought the drive into Best Buy today (a store here in the US that sells mainly electronic stuff) and asked one of the people there that works in the mac section if they could match that kinda drive for me and they didn't have any that would and I told her I was looking at one on amazon and she recommended that I don't go through them but recommended I check out Newegg like you said. But the deal on Amazon was the best deal I could find so thats why I went with it.

Hopefully it all works out, and your PB gets going once you install it and reinstall Leopard again.
Just remember, you'll need to boot off your Leopard disc when you get it, and format it through disc utility which you'll get to in the menu bar after you select the language.

Yea, I actually was trying to do a temporary fix by making an external USB drive bootable with the Leopard OS on it but it wouldn't work, tried everything :-(

Well the Drive is now installed and running Leopard on it but it appears to be a little bit slower for some reason? Do you know if Samsung is known to be a little slow?

Sorry just saw your post. Suggest doing a Google on 'Samsung slow HDD' as there are many reports on Samsung generally being a slow drive regardless if one uses Windows or a Mac.

Oh man that sucks, I hope its not slower than the drive that was in there originally the Hitachi