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Are New Hard Drives Compatible with Legacy Systems?
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Mar 30, 2009, 06:20 PM
 
Are new hard drives backwards compatible with old standards?

Example a Powerbook G3 1999 (Lombard) with ATA-2 interface. Will current ATA-7 drive work?

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Mar 30, 2009, 06:26 PM
 
As far as I know, more advanced ATA drives should be backward-compatible with earlier systems.

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Mar 30, 2009, 11:14 PM
 
However, the maximum drive size probably can't be more than 128GB. The machine will not be able to access anything beyond that.

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