Need Larger Internal HDD for G5 1.8 X 2

2015-07-16 Thread P.M. Stefan
Hi, I've got a G5 1.8 DP PCI-X computer which needs are larger internal HDD. Currently, it has the original 160 GB HDD | 5400RPM, that's 2/3rd full, and a boot drive, 60 GB | 7200 RPM which isn't used for files only for booting the computer. I thought of replacing the original HDD with this

Re: Need Larger Internal HDD for G5 1.8 X 2

2015-07-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 16, 2015, at 4:34 AM, P.M. Stefan p.m.ste...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've got a G5 1.8 DP PCI-X computer which needs are larger internal HDD. Currently, it has the original 160 GB HDD | 5400RPM, that's 2/3rd full, and a boot drive, 60 GB | 7200 RPM which isn't used for files only

Re: Need Larger Internal HDD for G5 1.8 X 2

2015-07-16 Thread P.M. Stefan
Thank you both. The drive comes unformatted so those are great suggestions from both of you. RosaKiana On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jul 16, 2015, at 4:34 AM, P.M. Stefan p.m.ste...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've got a G5 1.8 DP

Re: Need Larger Internal HDD for G5 1.8 X 2

2015-07-16 Thread peterhaas
The drive comes unformatted so those are great suggestions from both of you. Even SSDs come unformated. During the device role call, unformatted drives are so marked, and one of the first actions when the system reaches the Desktop is to invoke Disk Utility and ask you to initialize or ignore