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hi
I have a PCI SCSI bus controller card installed in my powermac g3 rev1 (blue & white)
what type of hard drive (preferably seagate) can connect to this? - if any?
anyone know?
rich
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I'll jump in and say you need to buy a SCSI internal hard dive. I mean isn't that's what your asking, perhaps I missed the point of your question.
Seagate makes good hard drives, take a look at macmall.com, or macconnection for scsi hard drives to give you an idea of what's available and the cost.
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is there a hard drive size limit if your using a scsi hard drive?
rich
Originally Posted by Maflynn
I'll jump in and say you need to buy a SCSI internal hard dive. I mean isn't that's what your asking, perhaps I missed the point of your question.
Seagate makes good hard drives, take a look at macmall.com, or macconnection for scsi hard drives to give you an idea of what's available and the cost.
Mike
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Originally Posted by rich82fox
is there a hard drive size limit if your using a scsi hard drive?
rich
Yes, either 300 GB or your wallet 
If you don't have a drive yet, IDE drives are probably better for what you do, especially considering the old computer you want to put the drive into.
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You are probably better off with an IDE or SATA PCI card and a big IDE/SATA drive. SCSI drives bigger than 73GB are still quite expensive (although IMHO very reliable and fast).
If you still want to go the SCSI route it depends on the type of SCSI card you have what drives can be easily attached. As far as I know there is no reasonable limit on the size. If you can find and afford one a 300GB SCSI disk should work if jumpers, cables, convertors etc. are right.
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would the maximum hard drive size still be 300gb for a IDE pci card?
rich
Originally Posted by mousehouse
You are probably better off with an IDE or SATA PCI card and a big IDE/SATA drive. SCSI drives bigger than 73GB are still quite expensive (although IMHO very reliable and fast).
If you still want to go the SCSI route it depends on the type of SCSI card you have what drives can be easily attached. As far as I know there is no reasonable limit on the size. If you can find and afford one a 300GB SCSI disk should work if jumpers, cables, convertors etc. are right.
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Originally Posted by rich82fox
would the maximum hard drive size still be 300gb for a IDE pci card?
rich
any modern SATA or IDE card should support virtually unlimited drives. the current biggest SATA/IDE drive is 500GB i think (Hitachi).
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Originally Posted by mousehouse
any modern SATA or IDE card should support virtually unlimited drives. the current biggest SATA/IDE drive is 500GB i think (Hitachi).
I just ordered an ACARD AEC-6280M PCI Ultra ATA-133 IDE card
It has two connections and they say that you can connect 4 drives
they say the limit is 400gb- but can you have four 300gb disks?
rich
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I think its 400gb per drive, but the easiest way to confirm this is to get on the mfg's site and look up the specs/faq
Can I ask why you need a terebyte of storage?
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any ATA/133 card should support 48-bit addressing, and therefore be able to use the latest and greatest in IDE storage - including the new 500GB drives.
Keep in mind though that all the drives, especially the very large ones, produce heat that needs to get out of your PowerMac case. Adding a lot of internal drives increases the temperature and I'm not sure your Mac will like that.
The best "bang for the buck" drives are now the 250GB ones I believe. You could always get two of those for 0.5TB of storage!
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Originally Posted by rich82fox
I just ordered an ACARD AEC-6280M PCI Ultra ATA-133 IDE card
It has two connections and they say that you can connect 4 drives
they say the limit is 400gb- but can you have four 300gb disks?
rich
Well, technically, there is no 400 GB limit I know of. 500 GB drives should work fine, but they cost a fortune.
But yes, you can connect four 300 gig drives (as long as you can fit all of them in).
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