>My G5 appears to have experienced an HDD failure and now hangs at boot on the >logo screen. I bought it with Leopard pre-installed so I'm now in need of a >replacement SATA drive and a copy of OSX. Money is tight so cheapest possible >options. I only want to use it for Final Cut Express 4 and Adobe Creative >Suite CS3. > > >SATA HDD >I was thinking something less than 100GB just for the OS. What are the >implications of type or speed of SATA drive? I'm only aware that 7200rpm is >best for video scratch disks but what about OS? I have a 320GB in there for >video scratch purposes. > >OSX >I think I can get by with Tiger? Certainly true for FCE 4. Is Snow Leopard a >stand-alone OS? Can't seem to find any G5 original installation disks for >sale. Now cruising eBay. > >G5 / 2.0 / DP / 512MB
The LEM Swap list may be better than cruising eBay. SATA drives the size you need are not terribly expensive and appear frequently; or just post a WTB. Even new or refurb drives from retail sellers like geeks.com or newegg.com are reasonably priced. CS3 only requires OS 10.4.8 and I your G5 will boot from any retail version of OS 10.4 (black label) unless it is a late 2005 model and then you will need 10.4.4 --according to Mactracker. If you don't need 10.5 for any other software or its features the retail (black label) versions of 10.4.x will do. A free upgrade to 10.4.11 is available from the Apple support site. Oh, and you may want to upgrade the RAM, 512 MB is very light for any version of OS 10 not to mention FCE and CS. --glen -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
