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Is a Hitachi hard drive a good drive to use in a 30GB video iPod?
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The Hitachi drives are good BUT if your iPod has a Toshiba drive, you will need a new hard drive cable (select the Hitachi option). Hitachi drives have a different connector than the Toshiba drives, that necessitate a different cable.
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Why not use one from iFixit? This one is actually Toshiba, any place is good though, hitachi should be fine, as long as it's a reputable vendor and is the right type.
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Price difference.
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yes Hitachi is a reputable hard drive maker (did you know? they purchased IBM hard drive's division almost 10 years ago. and FWIW IBM pioneered the original hard drive mechanism)
these days there's only a handful of hard drive makers anyhow (about 5 of them, Toshiba is one of the others) - I'd say any brand for your iPod is probably fine. as rab777hp said, just buy the correct type from a reputable vendor.
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Tristan, looking contextually at your posts, you have some unique issues with your iPod. Rather than creating a new question every time there is a change, please just update one question with the progress. This context is very important for those Answering to adequately diagnose the problem. It will aid in supplying the most accurate answers for you. Thanks!
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