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)
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
In Disk Utility. I beleive its an option in Partition tab.
How to format your disks...
http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/partition-types.htm
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/partitioning_tiger.html
Thanks to Pondini, Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks...
Hi sorry, it is in fact a Dual 2Ghz! I thought it seemed wrong as I typed it!!
It's just for the extra internal drive bay so I'm not bothered about it being bootable.
Many thanks for the info ;-)
David
Then a bigger drive will work if Partitioned GUID scheme. 🙂
Hi there,
sorry but what is GUID scheme? thanks ;-)
Kind Regards
David
Recommend a Hard Drive for PowerMac G5
