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Aug 5, 2014 5:55 PM in response to afberendsenby BDAqua,2.1 GB is the max bootable size drive for G5s.
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Aug 5, 2014 9:37 PM in response to BDAquaby Allan Jones,BD, did you mean "2.1 TB?" I have a G4 that is booting happily from a 250GB volume.
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Aug 6, 2014 3:54 AM in response to afberendsenby kaz-k,Most of 2TB HDD or Seagate ST4000DX001 4TB HDD.
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Aug 6, 2014 9:59 AM in response to Allan Jonesby BDAqua,OOPs, yep 2.1 TB! Thanks!
Make sure the drive is SATA 1.5 Gb/s compatible, some drives will work with jumpers to slow them down, for instance WD drives jumper on pins 5&6.
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Aug 6, 2014 2:12 PM in response to kaz-kby afberendsen,Is the only bootable 4TB HDD I can use on my PM G5 is the Seagate ST4000DX001?
All the other vendors (and models) will be limited to 2.1TB?
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Aug 6, 2014 3:38 PM in response to afberendsenby BDAqua,As far as I know, 4 TB would need to be GUID Partition scheme, which is not bootable on PPC Macs, but can be used R&W.
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Aug 6, 2014 3:53 PM in response to BDAquaby afberendsen,Nice Than I can have a <= 2.1TB HDD for boot/system and another 4TB for data storage
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Aug 6, 2014 4:17 PM in response to afberendsenby BDAqua,That is what I understand, but have never tried it.
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Aug 6, 2014 8:33 PM in response to afberendsenby kaz-k,I suppose it's not bootable, it's just use for data storage.