Re: imac 333 tray loading

[Dennis Moser]

The bigger drive is NOT a waste of money...you'll just need to 
partition the drive into volumes that your OS WILL recognize...it's 
really no different than what you would need to do when installing OS X 
(you don't say which OS you're running), which, on older machines, 
required being installed in the first 8 Gb of drive space. In my case, 
that meant partitioning the drive into a 7.5 Gb volume for the install 
and a 110 Gb+ volume for everything else. When it comes to drives, 
BIGGER is NEVER a waste of money...8-)

Dennis Moser

On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 15:30 US/Central, J Spock wrote:

On onsdag, jul 2, 2003, at 22:21 Europe/Stockholm, Jace Byers wrote:

I want to upgrade the HD in my wifes 333 tray loading imac, it still 
has
the original 6 gig and I have upgraded to osx and now have very little
space left. Can I just get a normal ide drive or does this require
something else?

Any IDE ATA66 or better (ATA100, ATA133) will do!

But bigger disk than 120GB is a waste of money since it wont handle 
more than 128GB or so. Seagate Barracuda V or 7200.7 are nice quiet 
drives. Hitachi (IBM) or Maxtor also to be considered



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