If the WD 500Gb is a full size IDE HD, (and not a laptop drive, or SATA,)
then yes. It's really easy to swap drives in the G4 towers. Just make sure
the cable settings are correct (Master/Slave).
-Elliott
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Bill Chapman <[email protected]>wrote:
> It has a slot, no tray... it might be 6GB drive now that I think of it... I
> haven't hooked it up in awhile
> I don't have nearly the room to hook up any more computers... besides,
> those old ones are way too slow as compared to my G4 Titanium PB (1.6GHz,
> the fastest G4 Apple ever made) and my G5 Dual 2.0GHz. In fact I've just
> shelved my G3 B/W tower/Panther... I'm swapping it out and replacing it with
> my (currently) dead G4 Quicksilver 800MHz/Tiger as soon as I get another HD.
> Btw, would I be able to install a
> Western Digital Caviar GP 500GB hd drive on the G4?... I'm no techie
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Clark Martin wrote:
>
>> On 4/21/10 5:48 AM, Bill Chapman wrote:
>>
>>> I have an early G3 iMac, Bondi or Blueberry, I'm not sure...
>>> slot-loading 4Gb HD 256Mb RAM 350MHz
>>> Had OS 9.1 if I remember correctly (got it secondhand about 5-6 years
>>> ago) which I upped to 9.2.2 at first, and then 2 years ago loaded
>>> Panther (OSX 10.3.9). Also have the same-era G3 Clamshell laptop
>>> (so-called 'toilet seat' haha) with roughly same specs... replaced those
>>> with G4 and G5 machines over the last 2 years, but still have the G3s
>>> Ikea'd in plain view, I swap them on and off my 4-mac lan (which
>>> includes my trusty Power Mac 8600 MacOS 8.6) occasionally. All
>>> secondhand.... don't need brand new, never did.
>>>
>>
>> That info is confused. 4Gb HD implies a tray loader (unless someone
>> downgraded the drive. But 350 MHz implies slot loader.
>>
>> Last year I got a tangerine clamshell. I always liked the look of that
>> model. It was very different in a industry of sameness.
>>
>> You can always get a 8 port switch, cheap, so you can have all the
>> computers on the net at once. I've got a 16 port gigabit switch, 24 port
>> 10/100 switch, 16 port 10MBps hub and assorted other little ones hooking
>> everything up. And three wireless APs for the laptops and such.
>>
>>
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