On Nov 30, 2005, at 4:09 PM, Tom Saecker wrote:
Greetings,
I have reached the point that I want more Hard Drive space in my 2
B&W G3s.
Money is in very short supply right now so I am thinking along the
used/refurbished market.
What should I look for or avoid in IDE drives?
Are there any particular brands one should avoid for use in a Mac?
Good brands/bad brands tend to cluster around models, not brands.
Foex, the old IBM 30 Gig "Deathstars", which have a horrible
reputation; their current line (now Hitachi) are good drives. All the
manufacturers have had ups and downs.
I assume that most any IDE hard drive should be compatible is that
correct?
The B&W (and up through the Quicksilver models) have an ATA
controller issue limiting the size of the supported drive to 128 Gb;
any drive larger than that needs to be attached to an ATA controller
expansion card. There's a software fix for the large drive problem,
it involves partitioning the larger drive, but I much prefer the
hardware controller solution; not only can you support more drives,
but they're faster, too.
Beyond that issue, any modern IDE drive will fit.
Computer Geeks has a decent selection cheap right now:
<http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=HDD>
Seagate 80GB drive for $49; not a bad price.
I have noticed that the IDE drives listed in the Apple Macintosh
section on Ebay seem to be more expensive than the drives in the
general computer section so naturally I wonder if there is a reason.
Because they think that attaching "Mac" to the name means an
automatic 25% markup.
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