Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Dan wrote: This is the box I have It states a 2TB capacity but maybe the specs were written before the larger HDD's were readily available? And as you said it appears no drivers needed. http://www.acomdata.com/app/stx.productdetail.asp?did=48 Nice box.

Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-16 Thread Dan
At 3:35 PM -0800 2/14/2011, John Carmonne wrote: On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Dan wrote: This is the box I have It states a 2TB capacity but maybe the specs were written before the larger HDD's were readily available? And as you said it appears no drivers needed.

Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-14 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 13, 2011, at 7:48 PM, Dan wrote: If the box supports the bigger drives, it's possible that the controller will automagically RAID the drives. Otherwise they'd have to provide some sort of tool to make it do it. You haven't said the actual model name so googling around a

Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-14 Thread Dan
At 5:39 AM -0800 2/14/2011, John Carmonne wrote: On Feb 13, 2011, at 7:48 PM, Dan wrote: If the box supports the bigger drives, it's possible that the controller will automagically RAID the drives. Otherwise they'd have to provide some sort of tool to make it do it. You haven't said the

Drive upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread John Carmonne
I have two acomdata 2TB drives that consist of 2 1TB Hitachi drives. Each of the drives mount as single 2 TB drives. Can I replace the two 1TB's with two 2TB's and create a single 4TB drive just by installing the new HDD's? Or do I need to do a special initialization, if so how would I do this?

Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Dan
At 8:20 AM -0800 2/12/2011, John Carmonne wrote: I have two acomdata 2TB drives that consist of 2 1TB Hitachi drives. Each of the drives mount as single 2 TB drives. Can I replace the two 1TB's with two 2TB's and create a single 4TB drive just by installing the new HDD's? Or do I need to do a

Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 13, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Dan wrote: You're terminology is a bit muddied. From what I can tell, you have two Acomdata boxes. Each box contains two 1 TB HDs, that are RAIDed together, so they each present a 2 TB volume to your Mac. 1) Replacing the 1 TB mechanisms with 2 TB

Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Dan
At 4:52 PM -0800 2/13/2011, John Carmonne wrote: I do have two boxes containing 2 1TB drives each. I want to install 2 2TB drives in each box giving me 2 separate 4TB boxes. Assuming the Acomdata boxes controllers will work. Can I just install them and have them mount as a 4TB box or do I

G4 intenal hard drive upgrade

2009-06-15 Thread joan
Would love some suggestions on what to get to upgrade my 867 Power PC G4. We just added more memory and have 2 GB. The Bus speed is 133 MHz and I'm using 10.4.11. We have external LaCie and Maxtor hard drives but would like to beef up the G4 itself. thanks, joan

Re: G4 intenal hard drive upgrade

2009-06-15 Thread PeterH
On Jun 15, 2009, at 1:13 PM, joan wrote: Would love some suggestions on what to get to upgrade my 867 Power PC G4. We just added more memory and have 2 GB. The Bus speed is 133 MHz and I'm using 10.4.11. We have external LaCie and Maxtor hard drives but would like to beef up the G4 itself.

Re: G4 intenal hard drive upgrade

2009-06-15 Thread PeterH
On Jun 15, 2009, at 1:41 PM, nestamicky wrote: Unless you have a PCI card, or get the ?Highcap text? software, you'd be limited to 128 GB. Three options, none of which require a PCI card: 1) Intech's High Cap extension, 2) the open-source (free) extension which does the same thing, and

Re: G4 intenal hard drive upgrade

2009-06-15 Thread PeterH
On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:34 PM, PeterH wrote: Three options, none of which require a PCI card: 1) Intech's High Cap extension, 2) the open-source (free) extension which does the same thing, and [ * ] 3) the LBA48 property strings which are semi-permanently added to the

Re: G4 intenal hard drive upgrade

2009-06-15 Thread PeterH
On Jun 15, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Charles Lenington wrote: [ * ] It's called Overdrive. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/29409 404 error - not found I had absolutely NO trouble finding it. Perhaps you should use Google on Overdrive or another search key.

Re: G4 intenal hard drive upgrade

2009-06-15 Thread insightinmind
On Jun 15, 2009, at 7:36 PM, Charles Lenington wrote: [ * ] It's called Overdrive. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/29409 404 error - not found TRY: http://mac.profusehost.net/overdrive/index.html Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace:

Re: Hard drive upgrade progress

2008-10-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 1, 2008, at 2:28 AM, PeterH wrote: All SATA drives have an L shaped data cable and an L shaped power cable. I don't have much experience with these SATA connectors, and the Apple cables in my G5 are so much better than the cheap cables on a PC I'm messing with. Even with the L