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Oct 21, 2014 6:31 AM in response to oliverreadby Gatriel,I just stuck a 3 TB drive in a PowerMac 7,3 (although I think from 2003) and it isn't playing well with its new cellmate. Wiping the drive is proving to be more difficult than it should. Having to do a Zero overwrite to get it to format -- and even then that is "iffy."
I say try it.
(In theory this should work no problem.)
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Oct 21, 2014 11:59 AM in response to oliverreadby BDAqua,Two caveats, the drive has to be SATA 1.5 Gb/s compatible, or you must have a true SATA 1.5 Gb/s drive in slot zero & a SATA 3 Gb/s drive in slot 1.
Compatible drives for 1st G5/1.6GHz...
http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Upgrades.cfm?sort=pop&model=182&type=Internal+Dr ive
Note, drives over 2.19 TB must be formatted & partitioned GUID, which means they will NOT be bootable.
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Oct 21, 2014 12:00 PM in response to Gatrielby BDAqua,Hi, 3 TB Drive will not be bootable on a G5, 2.19 TB is the limit for Apple Partition Map.
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