Question about a new hard drive in my old G4Dual 500

pfflampfflam
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I want to get a big hard drive inside the computer using the ATA connection



How big ccan I go?

can I put a 240Gig drive?

700Gig?



there is a 75 Gig in there now.

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    joe_the_dragonjoe_the_dragon Posts: 931member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by pfflam View Post


    I want to get a big hard drive inside the computer using the ATA connection



    How big ccan I go?

    can I put a 240Gig drive?

    700Gig?



    there is a 75 Gig in there now.



    Power Macs earlier than the 2002 Quicksilver models do not have built-in support for IDE hard drives with capacities over 128 GB. Without a third-party solution, larger drives can only be formatted to 128 GB in these models. There are three options (as noted on Accelerate Your Mac):



    * Intech's ATA Hi-Cap Support Driver

    * A PCI IDE card that supports big drives

    * A FireWire enclosure that supports big drives
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    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    Do you mean to say that if I format a larger disk into 128g partitions then that will work?



    or is it a hardware thing?
  • Reply 3 of 3
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    Oh . . nevermind that . . .



    But, are all the solutions besides the external involving a PCI slot?

    Mine are all taken

    though I suppose I don't need my SCSI card anymore . . . . hm?!
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