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Recommend a Hard Drive for PowerMac G5

Hi all,


My PowerMac is now very old and I believe that I'm limited to SATA II hard drives. I need to get a new internal drive for it, can anyone recommend the best high performance hard drive that is still compatible with such an old machine? It's so long since I last bought an internal one that I don't really know where to start now!!


It is an early 2005 PowerMac G5 dual 1.6 ghz machine running OS 10.5.8


Many thanks

David

G5, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Jan 27, 2015 6:07 AM

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Jan 27, 2015 9:37 AM in response to mandarcy

Hi David,


It needs to be SATA I compatible & under 2.2 TB to be bootable, 10.5.8 will handle the new bigger Advanced Format sectors...


Sorry, there was never a Dual 1.6, & no 1.6s in 2005, there were Dual 1.8s in 2004 though.


Any of these 2 TB or less should work in any G5 PowerMac...


http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Upgrades.cfm?sort=pop&model=206&type=Internal+Dr ive

Recommend a Hard Drive for PowerMac G5

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