On Jun 14, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Kyle Koerner wrote:
Hi All -
I should know, but I don't. Can any of you recommend a good hard
drive for a G3 slot loader? I received an email asking for help,
but I don't know anything specific. Any advice would be greatly
appreciated by myself and the person who emailed me.
Thanks in advance -
Kyle-
Almost any IDE hard drive, up to 120 GB, will work just fine. (The
iMac won't "see" anything bigger than 137 GB internally, though you
can install a larger hard drive.) Our local Staples store is selling
a 120 GB Maxtor, 7200 rpm, 8 MB cache, for $59.94 this week. You can
get similar buys on smaller or larger hard drives in the range of 50
cents to $1 per gigabyte by shopping around. I'm running a 60 GB 7200
rpm Maxtor in a G3/400 iMac converted to G4/550 and the computer is
so quiet that I can hear the discs spinning and occasional very faint
electronic beeps as the hard drive does its stuff. Its the quietest
computer I've got. My new iMac G5 has a 250 GB serial ATA Maxtor and
it's even quieter. My experience with a lot of Maxtors has been very
good. YMMV. HTH.
-- Jim
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