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Hard drive is failing - whats a good replacement?
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I opened up the system profile on my G4 quicksilver, and its telling me that the hard drive is on the way out, the SMART section labels the hard drive as 'failing'. its the original 60Gb drive that came with the machine.
I have a 120Gb as a second drive (external in a firewire case at the moment), and to be honest I'll be replacing the machine in the next 6 months so I'm not wanting to spend on a huge drive.
So what is the recommended replacement drive - Seagate, Maxtor, WD, something else??? I'll probably go for a 7200rpm drive, and it would have to be IDE.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Which Quicksilver do you have? The first revision only supported 128GB drives, but the second revision supports larger drives.
Also, can you give a capacity or price point you're looking for?
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So, instead of spending $$ on a new drive for the QS, just move the 120 into it, trash the 60, keep the enclosure (for that future 500-3000GB drive you know you will buy sooner or later), and be happy...... Why, you ask? because:
A) when you sell the QS, you'll get a few $$ more for it with a bigger HD in it
B) your new box will almost certainly have a larger drive as standard equipment (120-300GB is rapidly becoming the norm!)
Any BTW, any of those brands you listed are fine, IIRC, Seagate has the longest warranty (5yrs)
good luck with whatever you do 
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Its one of the first ones, 867MHz single processor, so yes it has the 128GB limit. For the prices I've found (£25-£40 here ) cost isn't an issue, so I may as well go for a 120GB, and I know that 7200rpm drives are faster, and large cache helps too. But I have no idea which manufacturer is the one to go for.
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Thanks for that bowwowman, I know where you are coming from, but the 120 has my stuff on it and doesn't have that much free and available space (mp3's & photoshop files etc). I'd rather keep it there as it is than shift things around from drive to drive.
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Since you're only keeping it 6 months, manufacturer doesn't really matter.
Seagate has a 5 year warranty, while the rest are 1 or 3.
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