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Do PC SATA drives at Best Buy work with Macs?
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I see a lot of hard drives in Circuit City / Best Buy that are SATA (I have a G5 dual core) and wondered if these would work in a Mac.
The older ATA drives say PC/Mac, but the newer SATA don't say Mac on the packages, just Windows PC.
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FM
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Most of them will work.
Some of the high-capacity Seagate drives have an enabled-by-default feature called SSC that makes them incompatible with the PowerMacs (and iMacs?); you need to disable SSC with another computer.
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Disable SSC on another computer? How is this done?
High capacity meaning...500GB? More?
Frank
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Disable SSC on another computer? How is this done?
High capacity meaning...500GB? More?
A) Install it in a windblows box first, disable SSC using the pc utility in the HDD box, then install in your mac
B) HC meaning >>250GB..... IIRC
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Originally Posted by frankmcma
High capacity meaning...500GB? More?
SSC is supported on some Seagate 250, 300, 400, and 500GB drives; it is enabled by default on very few of them.
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[QUOTE=frankmcma]I see a lot of hard drives in Circuit City / Best Buy that are SATA (I have a G5 dual core) and wondered if these would work in a Mac.
I have a Western Digital sata 300 gig drive installed in my G5 tower as the "a" drive, no problems including large file transfers. If you want to investigate drive compatability, go on over http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ and check their drive database.
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Tonight I took a chance and got the PC Western Digital 320GB SATA drive at Best Buy (blue and black box) its on sale this week for $119 (good price). Installed with no problems at all. Mac G5 did not recognize it on boot up (to be expected, probably formatted for NTFS) after a quick format, came out to 297GB. Put the Kill Bill helmut icon on the drive and was good to go...
FM
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