On Wednesday, March 24, 2004, at 09:28 PM, Greg van Hartesvelt wrote:
Be gentle, I'm new at this. I have a B&W G3 300 320 RAM with the 6 gig HD. I'm guessing it is a rev 1. Running out of room fast. Office Max has WD drives on sale regularly, but they say G4 and above. What's up with that. I checked with their tech support and they referred me to Apple. You would think they would know what their drives would run in, or at least why they label them the way they do.
There seems (to me) to be a lot of conflicting info out there about putting a drive in one of these things.
I'm open to recommendations as to what to put in this thing. I would like to go to at least 60 gig, but you guys seem to have MUCH more experience than I.
Go to www.xlr8yourmac.com and read up on the rev. 1 IDE slave issues first. I'm not sure if you've got a SCSI or an IDE drive already, if it's SCSI, an additional drive shouldn't be a problem IIRC, but I haven't read that site in a while, I got myself a rev. 2 so I wouldn't have to worry about it. Then get yourself a nice big 60 gig drive or bigger, just make sure it *isn't* Western Digital. I don't know what they mean about the G4 thing, but I do know I and plenty of other people have run into problems with WD drives, particularly the 60GB ones, so it's safest to just steer clear. I recently replaced my 60GB WD with a 40GB Maxtor after the second hard drive crash in about a month, I'd also had plenty of other problems with it in the past. Only other drive I've had go south on me before was a Seagate, so far.
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