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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Apr 2007
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I was looking into purchasing a mac pro and currently have a 250gig ATA harddrive I would like to move to a mac. Does the mac pro support ATA not just SATA?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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There are ways to do it I think, but PATA isn't supported out of the box.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Vancouver B.C.
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You can buy a USB2 or Firewire external enclosure for your existing HD for under $30. Or just buy a SATAII 250GB for well under $100.
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Get busy living or get busy dying --Stephen King
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Athens, Greece
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On the tech specs it says Serial ATA. Isn't that what SATA means????
Could someone please clarify this? I'm planning to buy a second hard drive as well. So I'm really interested in knowing what kind of hard drive I need to buy.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Yes, you need to buy a SATA (Serial ATA) or SATA II HD for the Mac Pro.
The guy above was asking if he could install a parallel ATA HD.
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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PATA is available in the optical drive bays. You could probably put the HD in the second drive bay, if you have to, though I've never tried it.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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Yea, you can grab a pair of 5.25"->3.5" wings and put your ATA hard drive in the second optical bay. The hard drive slots in the Mac Pro are for SATA only.
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