Can the G4 MDD support internal 1TB hard drives

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With a SATA PCI controller, you can use as large a drive as the controller card supports.

On the native ATA bus, you can also use large ATA drives, but finding a 1TB ATA drive is the hard part.
500GB seems to be the max.

I might also add that you can expand the capacity up to 100(I forget the actual number) PETABYTES.

But, by the time a petabyte hard drive comes out, I think we all will be using Intel macs 🙂

Can you use a larger drive (500GB) on the ATA 66 bus as well as the ATA 100? I have a 750GB on the ATA bus, but have gotten conflicting answers from Mac pros regarding the size drive that will work in the ATA 66 bus. I have a
Machine Name: Power Mac G4
Machine Model: PowerMac3,6
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.1)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 867 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 1.75 GB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.4.8f2

It depends on the OS. And OS 9 can't boot from partitions larger than 195GB, so you can use larger drive but had to partition if you wanted native OS 9 boot capability).

As long as you are running OS X 10.4 then you are fine.