Ok I found this hard drive on ebay for $75 with the shipping: 7200rpm 250GB Maxtor HARD DRIVE Apple Power Mac iMac G4|eMac... Is this a good drive for the money and can I split it into 2 125g partitions??? I have someone else sending me all the details for a simular one for $79.95... I will post that info when I get it... Thanks again everyone!!!
-----Original Message----- >From: Richard Gerome <[email protected]> >Sent: Jul 28, 2010 12:27 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Revisited: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!! > > > Once again for anyone who doesn't know the computer is G4 Power Mac M5183 > tower and keyboard she doesn't have the monitor... On the back it has 1-AGP > slot, 4-PCI slots, 2-USB's 2-FireWire 400's, 3 slots for memory (and I > already know the max is 1.5g (3-512's) ram... The computer was built around > July 2002 it has a 466mhz processor, 896mb (1-128mb/1-256mb/1-512mb), ATI > rage 128 pro video card, 30G 5400rpm IBM Deskstar HD (March 2001), Sony CD-RW > CRX140E, IOMEGA ZIP 250... She has a HP 23" monitor (pretty new) from the PC > she is using now and would like to use this (so she can switch back and forth > from Apple tower to PC tower) depending on what she is working on... > I already bought a AGP PNY Tech NIVDIA GeForce FX 5200 128mb Video card and > an airport card together for $34 ebay, a Pioneer DVR-118LBK DVD/CD Writer for > $28 from NewEgg... I'm working on now 2-512mb someone I know is working on > getting for me... My biggest question is for the hard drive which way should > I go??? She has about $160 left to spend she told me she can go as high as > $200 total (but if I could get the rest for less this would be great) She can > probably move her work off to a external devise??? This is why I was leaning > towards a 128g max 7200rpm HD PATA instead of a SATA... Or would it be better > to go with a SATA PCI card and a SATA HD that is a 128g max 7200rpm??? This > is where I am stuck??? Also which way would be faster and how much faster??? > Thank You everyone very much!!! Rich > >Scars only tell us where we have been, they do not have to dictate where we >are going... > >-- >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 Scars only tell us where we have been, they do not have to dictate where we are going... -- 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
