Old ATA drives on new intel mac

mattamatta
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I'm going to be purchasing a new intel mac in the next month or so. I have 4 internal ATA drives on my current G4 1.25Dual MDD computer. It looks like these won't wonk in the new mac. Am I correct? Does anyone know a workaround other that mounting them in external enclosures?

Thanks!



Matt

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    smaxsmax Posts: 361member
    I believe the Intel Macs all use SATA, so you're going to need new hard drives. I do believe there are adapters for PATA to SATA though.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    leonardleonard Posts: 528member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by smax View Post


    I do believe there are adapters for PATA to SATA though.



    Adapters won't fit in the bays.



    There are external firewire/usb enclosures. You could also put one of the PATA drives in the empty optical bay.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    vineavinea Posts: 5,585member
    I guess you could just share the 4 drives from the MDD...
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