[Simon H]

Hi all,

I have been searching all over and haven't been able to find what i'm looking for, so apologies if it appears somewhere i missed...

I have a quad G5 PowerMac and need to upgrade to the fastest internal SATA disk i can - a while ago there were some problems with bigger than 250gb disks working as internal drives but i can't find anything to tell me what the upshot was and what disks bigger than 250gb I can use.

Can anyone point me to a resource or have any experience as to what will work ? I don't want to have to go to external SATA etc if i can avoid it

cheers

Simon

[Waragainstsleep]

My colleague custom built his with two 500GB drives in it from Apple. The theoretical limit on size is many orders of magnitude above the biggest available (1TB) drives.

If there is any issue, then its some kind of odd bug.

[Max_Doubt_M'Wham]

Originally Posted by Simon H 

Hi all, I have a quad G5 PowerMac and need to upgrade to the fastest internal SATA disk i can - a while ago there were some problems with bigger than 250gb disks working as internal drives but i can't find anything to tell me what the upshot was and what disks bigger than 250gb I can use.
Can anyone point me to a resource or have any experience as to what will work ? I don't want to have to go to external SATA etc if i can avoid it

Hi Simon,

AFAIK, your Quad G5 has 2 hard drive bays and I was able to find the following fast, large and compatible HD:

IBM (Hitachi) Deskstar 7K1000 SATAII 1TB (1000GB) 32MB

This HD comes from a list on this page:

Internal Hard Drive Upgrades

Just scroll down until you see the Internal Hard Drive Upgrades section.

I also found the following discussion which I thought might interest you:

installing extra Hard Drives on a G5 Quad [Archive] - The macosxhints Forums

I hope this helps ...

[Simon H]

guys,

thanks for the replies and links - the macupgrades site looks good and their compatability guide is just what i was looking for - i should be able to find what i need and know that it will be ok for use with the G5

my original concern is that a friend of mine had a dual cpu G5 and his particular config wouldn't work with certain drives over 250gb.

cheers

Simon

[mduell]

Any size SATA drive should be fine... even if they skimped on addressing space and went for something in the mid 30 bits instead of the full 48, the limitation should still be much larger than drives available today.