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Hard Drive with NCQ and G5
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Feb 26, 2005, 09:41 AM
 
Hi,

I want to add a second hard drive to my PowerMac G5 (dual 1.8GHz). I was thinking of getting a Seagate SATA drive. Some have NCQ and some don't. If I get one can the PowerMac G5 support NCQ? If the PowerMac G5 is not capable of supporting it will a drive with NCQ still work in the PowerMac G5?

Thanks for any info you are able to provide.

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Feb 26, 2005, 11:45 AM
 
I was reading somewhere on the Net about NCQ and if I recall, NCQ drives will run on non-NCQ machines but you will obviously not get any benefits from it.
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Feb 26, 2005, 02:39 PM
 
That was my understanding as well, but I wanted confirmation before I ordered one.

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