Howdy, On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 09:31 -0500, Dwight Hines wrote: > All the external hard drives of 500 gig or a terrabyte at Office Max > and Staples are USB. I want to be able to start up and that means my > external must have firewire. Any suggestions on where and what to > look for. > Seagate sells external hard drives that have both USB and Firewire ports. But, you don't want them. They go to sleep and Seagate shares the mojo to wake them up only with Microsoft. External drive cases from a bunch of generic providers work well. Right now, I would probably buy this case off of eBay. It is made(or oemed) by MacAlly. The cases are new and look like a G5 tower. Look at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=350270525756
> > Similarly, I need a high capacity internal drive for an iBook G4 and > want to not pay megabucks. Please make suggestions, again, on where > and what to look for and look out for. They are pretty easy to find now, but may not be easy in a year or two. Searching Newegg.com for pata laptop turned up 8 different drives. I bought a 120 GB drive like you need at Micro Center recently to go into a G4 iMac. I don't know what is high capacity to you. Staying under 128 GB is safest and easiest. If you need more space, you can get it to work. Look in the archives of this list for details, if it does not work straight off.. Some macs need enablers to go bigger, but 120 GB is lots of storage to me. I have network storage for backups and stuff. Good luck, Ralph -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
