Yee-haw! I've been using my Phatbox in my VW in the USA for several years now and have loved it (but wished my 20 GB cartridge were bigger). When I bought the unit, the hack did not yet exist. I just decided to research whether or not a workaround had been found, and was excited to see that I can hack my Phatbox now to use a bigger drive!
I have the USB 2.0 dock, so it looks like I'm not stuck with the 127 GB limit. Honestly, I think 100 or 120 GB would be big enough for my purposes, but it appears that a 100 GB or 120 GB drive is almost as expensive as a 250 GB drive.
Websites like pricewatch aren't very helpful because they show all 2.5 inch notebook drives and don't differentiate between IDE and SATA.
After much website browsing, I have found:
320 GB Scorpio Blue drive (new retail box) for $99 at B&H:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/608015-REG/Western_Digital_WD3200BEVERTL_320GB_2_5_Scorpio_Blue.html 31 cents per gig
320 GB Scorpio Blue (OEM package) $89.99 shipped at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001SQH1DY/ 28 cents per gig
250 GB Scorpio Blue drive (new retail box) for $79 shipped at B&H:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/583764-REG/Western_Digital_WD2500BEVERTL_250GB_2_5_Scorpio_Blue.html31 cents per gig
160 GB Samsung Spinpoint M5 OEM for $62 shipped from eWiz:
http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=SM-HM160HC&c=fr&pid=da9432f7e89f6224a7e620747e1d0ec7d541669d2dcb3b1e97a8dd790bda566739 cents per gig
120 GB Scorpio Blue OEM bulk package on Amazon for $59.99 shipped
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Scorpio-Notebook-WD1200BEVE/dp/B000RHNPDU/50 cents per gig
Does anyone know of better deals on 100-320 GB drives? I could get a 100 or 120 GB if one were for sale somewhere for something like $30-40 (same price per GB as the bigger drives). Everyone seems to want to sell their 100 and 120 GB drives for $60 or more...
Any reason to pick Samsung over WD or vice versa?
Thanks!
