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lthurman · Dec 28, 2005, 01:40 AM

Hi All and Merry Christmas,

This is my first post so please be gentle. I have recently purchased a mint second hand Dual 2.0Ghz and am over the moon with it.

However since I am doing a lot of video work the 160Gb is being eaten up at an alarming rate.

I am therefore about to purchase a new hard drive for my Dual 2.0Ghz.

Firstly will any SATA drive be OK, have read a few other posts and some talk about a list on the Apple site which list compatible drives. Is this true as I cannot find it.

Also I am in the UK and can anyone recommend a reliable cheap retailer for a nice fast 250GB hard drive.

Anyhelp would be much appreciated.

mduell · Dec 28, 2005, 01:55 AM

Any SATA drive should work; I've heard of some problems with high capacity (300GB+) Seagate drives due to SSC, but you can disable that with a PC.

I'd look at 300GB too, since their price per gig has recently dropped to about the same as the 250s.

crooner · Dec 28, 2005, 02:13 AM

Mark, have you heard of the 400GB Seagates having the SSC issues as well as the 500GBs? For some reason I thought this was isolated to the 500GB 7200.9 series.

mduell · Dec 28, 2005, 02:43 AM

Originally Posted by crooner

Mark, have you heard of the 400GB Seagates having the SSC issues as well as the 500GBs? For some reason I thought this was isolated to the 500GB 7200.9 series.

As far as I know, all 7200.9 drives support SSC but usually comes disabled. A few batches of 500GB drives have shipped with SSC enabled and are causing problems in PowerMacs.