I have the original 10gb HD in my iMac G3 DV. I have a FireWire 250gb external drive that I boot from, and have a boot-time script that ejects the internal drive. It makes the machine whisper quiet because the external HD is silent and the internal one ceases to function.
At first I considered getting a 32gb solid state drive for the silence, but after reading the disassembly docs, I nixed that idea. The 250gb external is larger and cheaper than the 32gb drive. Reading the disassembly docs to get the drive in (and out n years from now) also looked like more than I wanted to deal with. HTH. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Flemming Wyrtz Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Solid state Harddisk on an iMac G4 Thank you Bruce I have had disassembled so I know the pain inside. I actually have the computer in my office in Denmark and I do most of my work in South America so I am away for a pretty long time and threfore the point is to make the configuration rockstable. Thats the reason to even begin thinking on a ssd drive. I will give it a try. When I have done it I will post a comment. Bye bye Flemming On 16 Apr 2009, at 15:13, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:43 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> >> I have a perfectly working iMac G4 from 2002 with 2 G memory and now >> running Leopard, that I want to use as a server for a databasefile, >> that I will call home to from time to time when I or my personal >> wants >> to update company things. I want to use the iMac because I think it >> is >> still the most beautifull computer ever made and I have it as an icon >> and a working machine!. >> >> But to use it as a server with the harddisk waking up every 5 minutes >> does not please me. So here is the question. >> >> Does anyone know if I can possibly change the existing harddisk and >> replace it with a solid state drive. In case yes this machine will >> still have to work for me and will not retire. > > You can certainly do that, since it takes just a standard IDE drive. > All you need to do is get the right configuration of SSD drive. > > That said, the G4 iMacs are a MONSTER pain in the butt to work on. > > You can also use it as is, just turn off HDD sleep. If you're using it > as a server, in this fashion, set the display to sleep in a relatively > short period of time, but set the computer and hard drives to never > sleep. > > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
