On Jul 26, 2010, at 12:58 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: > On Jul 26, 12:39 pm, Richard Gerome <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I found this on newegg for $55.00 do you think it would be good for this >> computer??? I can't seem to find any better deals on ebay and this is a new >> one... >> Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA >> 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive... >> Also I heard some mention about a SATA PCI card, will I still need to get >> this to make better improvement to this machine and will it help the HD >> too??? Thank You!!! Rich > > Nice drive, ok price, not really. But wrong for the G4. You have a > PATA ready Mac. > It depends on what you want to do. Simplest is to buy a 500GB PATA > drive. > But- If you want most expansion - get a sata card and go with 1.5TB > sata drives. >
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