On 8/28/11 9:35 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I have a Quicksilver 2002 and a Blue and White G3. I need more hard
drive space. Would it be possible to use the hard drive from the G3 in
the G4, or maybe hook the two towers together somehow? Just curious.
A QS 2002 supports large drives natively.
I would install a 500 GB or 750 GB drive on top of the existing drive.
750s might be tough to find, however.
I just thought I'd add this on adding space to the G4 since others have
already answered the question regarding the existing IDE controllers:
Personally I bought a Sonnet Tempo SATA controller and a Hitatchi
3TB(2.7TB according to Leopard and earlier) hard drive for my Gigabit
G4. The drive even shows up when I boot into OS 9. Just realize that
those drives do use more power than the original IDE drives so having
too many of them could cause issues since the power supplies in the G4s
were not particularly high wattage compared to what came not long after
in the G5s.
I wouldn't put more than two of them in along side the smaller IDE boot
drive unless you do some modding and either replace the psu(at which
point it'd be easier just go external by use firewire or adding an eSATA
card )
If the digital audio G4 or B&W cases are anything like the gigabit G4,
then you have 5 3.5" drive bays. The bracket the original boot drive is
installed in is actually made for two drives. There are two more
single-drive brackets screwed into the bottom of the case between the
two-drive bracket and the front of the case, and then there is the one
more drive bay underneath the DVD drive. That said if you filled them
all with the newest drives you'd probably overwhelm the power supply as
I mentioned earlier.
-Matt
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