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Need new internal hard drive — Recommendations, Please
I need to buy a nice large, reliable, fast internal drive to put in the empty second bay of my Power Mac G5 Quad. I don’t want to spend more than $450 or so. It is going to be my new boot drive, because I can no longer use my old Hitachi for Final Cut, now that the QuickTime 7.3 upgrade has messed it up big-time. I’m going to use my old internal drive as a cloned back-up to my new one.
It has to be able to slide into the existing bay, without the need of adapters or any other nonsense. It needs to be compatible in every way with the G5 and OS 10.4.10. The power supply and other connector have to be DEFINITELY COMPATIBLE. (Can you tell I’ve run into compatability issues before?)
If you’ve used such an internal drive and have enough experience with it to recommend it, I would very much appreciate hearing from you. It would be good if you booted from it and ran the various FC Studio apps from it as well.
Many thanks,
Giraut -
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Any of the major SATA drives will do, but I recommend the Hitachi Deskstar 500gb SATA at $109. Check it out at Newegg.com https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145137&Tpk=hitachi%2bdeskstart%2b500gb
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There are some new seagate 7200 rpm drives that can read/write at almost 100MB/sec. I’d go with one of those, but any SATA drive will be compatible.
-Russ
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Russ,
I’ve read a bit about the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 being nice if you use it in an external enclosure and not so nice if you install it in an internal drive bay. Any thoughts on this being a really suitable drive for internal use on a PM G5 Quad?
Thanks a lot,
Giraut -
Also, I wonder if in the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 line, I would notice any performance difference between the 1T and the 500GB. It will be the start-up disk, after all, not the media drive.
Thanks,
Giraut -
An article that I read said that performance between the 1TB and the 500GB drives are consistent.
It sounds like a great drive and would be compatible with your PowerMac.
-Russ
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