Is it possible to install more than 1 Tb of hard drive into a PowerMac G5 , early 2005, dual 2 gHz. Right now the information I have says that I can only install two 500 Gb drives. I don't know if I can install a one 1 Tb drive or install two 1 Tb drives in each bay.
Much thanks for any help.
Apple G5, G3 (Macintosh) IIvx, Performa, SE30, SE,, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Lots of Hard Drive, internal/ex firewire. Lots of memory, lots o
Properly jumpered for SATA-1 compatibility, 2TB drives are no problem. 3TB drives with GUID partition maps should work fine for data, though if you wish to boot from one, you will need to format it with an Apple Partition Map (APM) scheme and partition it so that no partition is greater than about 2.2 TB. I have two 2TB Hitachis (no jumpers needed) in this G5 machine (first generation) right now.
Properly jumpered for SATA-1 compatibility, 2TB drives are no problem. 3TB drives with GUID partition maps should work fine for data, though if you wish to boot from one, you will need to format it with an Apple Partition Map (APM) scheme and partition it so that no partition is greater than about 2.2 TB. I have two 2TB Hitachis (no jumpers needed) in this G5 machine (first generation) right now.
Hi, that info was because 500GB was the biggest availble at the time! 🙂
The actual Limit is 2.2TB for Apple Partition Map partition scheme, so you could actually have two 2TB drives if compatible with SATA 1 specs, or can be jumpered thusly.
PowerMac G5 early2005 Max Total hard drive Gb = ???
