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

by Toshiba

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B0012JSB2C
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 12, 2008

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 60GB IDE Toshiba 4200RPM 2MB 8.0mm 1.8" MK6006GAH from VEMA Electronics, March 16, 2011

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fhpe77 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 60GB IDE Toshiba 4200RPM 2MB 8.0mm 1.8" MK6006GAH (Electronics)

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 shipping error, implying that they sent the wrong drive. They then offer me a 50% refund. I replied that I was expecting a new hard drive and requested that they send me the correct one. They replied that they did not have any new drives in stock, even though their site listed one. At that point I realized that this was a losing battle, so I accepted the 50% refund and I'll just have to wait for my $29 hard drive to fail. So to conclude my review, beware of VEMA Electronics as they advertised used items as new and hope the purchaser does not realize it. Also I'm not real pleased with Amazon as I thought they screen their vendors to weed out the scammers. I guess this is not the case so I'm done with Amazon as well.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally the right hard drive for my Dell X-1, March 26, 2009

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Richard Widman "Richard" (Virginia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 60GB IDE Toshiba 4200RPM 2MB 8.0mm 1.8" MK6006GAH (Electronics)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Old iPod Lives Again!, November 8, 2010

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Harry Abramson (Chesapeake, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 60GB IDE Toshiba 4200RPM 2MB 8.0mm 1.8" MK6006GAH (Electronics)

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.