Hard drive upgrades depend on the Operating System. Starting with OS 8.5, it can recognize greater than 2gb. Before that, you'd have to partition the drive to <2gb partitions. I have a 7300, and I replaced the 2gb that came with it with an IBM 9.1gb drive that works great as the boot disk. I also added an 18.2gb drive in the lower bay (Its one of those big noisy drives, but it was cheap.) 9gb shouldn't cost more than $100 new. You might have to shop around, I haven't looked recently. Remember that you really don't need ultra-wide, scsi 2, or any of that advanced stuff. You're looking for 50-pin internal scsi drives. I think over 20gb, and you'll be running out of budget, so I will venture that you can get as big a hard drive as you can afford. I have also installed a CompUSA generic PCI USB card. Remember that when you add USB, OS 8.6 and below aren't set up to recognize it. You have to manually turn on USB support. I don't know if anyone has streamlined this process, but I had to hack my OS a little with ResEdit. I think you don't need to do that with OS 9, so I would recommend 9.1 for its better performance. No exp (mostly) with upgrade cards. Got a Newertech g4 card, but it didn't play nice with my extensively modified hardware, so I sold it.
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