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Power Mac G5 - which HD for update?

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Posted 21 September 2005 - 12:37 PM

are there special HD-s for Macs, or just any regular (PC) hard drive will work?
i understand it needs to be SATA, and formatted accordingly of course...
any recommendations for brands?
i am thinking Seagate Barracuda, SATA with NCQ...
thx.
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Posted 21 September 2005 - 12:41 PM

if the deal is good.. go for it.
I got a deal too good to pass on a SATA from Maxtor..
they are all plug and play.
stick em in, format and you are golden.
in the G5, I am unaware of any size limits such as the older macs had.
I was given a 200G, so that was my second HD and my upgrade.
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Posted 21 September 2005 - 04:16 PM

Hi
I prefer Seagate as well. You got the rest correct yourself: SATA and Mac OS X can format it no problem.
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Posted 22 September 2005 - 05:00 AM

just DO it!
u know ya wanna....
jus like everyone else /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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Posted 22 September 2005 - 05:52 AM

i know i wanna, thing is, what am i going to do with all that space ???
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thank you for your replies...
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Posted 22 September 2005 - 06:34 AM

In reply to:

what am i going to do with all that space ?

That was the question I asked when I bought my first computer (12 years ago) and it had a 320 MB hard drive. Don't worry you'll use all the space all too soon.
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Posted 23 September 2005 - 08:19 AM

by the way, does anyone know if the Apple Mac G5 supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for hard drives?
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Posted 23 September 2005 - 02:49 PM

-Hi,
It seems so: [click here]
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Posted 23 September 2005 - 06:12 PM

Hi
I don't know how that proves anything. Maybe I missed something.
NCQ is both a hardware and software tool. The drive firmware itself must have NCQ support but apparently the SATA controller drivers and BIOS (firmware on Apple computers) must also have support in order to take full advantage of the technology.
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