If I'm not mistaken, I've read that the Smurf G3 can accept drives natively up to 128 gigabytes - and these are not proprietary drives. So any standard PATA IDE drive off the shelf (not SATA!) under that drive size limit should work just fine. I can vouch personally for the cloning software SuperDuper, having used it to clone a drive in my G4, others have recommended CCC - either way, replacing your currently stuffed drive with a larger hard drive is the way I'd go here.
Just my two and a half cents- Anna Stephen Conrad wrote: > On 7/5/09, Clark Martin <cm...@sonic.net> wrote: > >> Stephen Conrad wrote: >> >>> On 7/4/09, Clark Martin <cm...@sonic.net> wrote: >>> >>>> 50% would be an absurd amount. A percentage value isn't relevant, the >>>> amount is principally tied to virtual memory which depends on what >>>> programs are open. A better figure is to not let free space drop below >>>> about 5Gb. >>>> >>> Well......this is the original 6 GB HD that came with this machine >>> 4.67 GB for Mac OS X >>> 896.8 MB for storage (it was gonna be OS 9 but I deferred it to storage) >>> >> 6Gb is REAL tight for OS X. To make it work you need to install it >> without all the extras or remove them later. Extras as in un-needed >> printer drivers, languages and probably certain applications. Garage >> band for example is just plain huge for example. >> >> >>> I don't run Garage band or anything like that. >>> This is an old B&W G3 (a Smurf, Rev. A MB) and this is the HD it came with. >>> >> I don't recall what OS you are using but you can trim out quit a bit. >> Depending on what you cut out and what version of the OS you can get it >> down to about 2Gb (I can't recall if that's with or without the >> Application folder). >> >> >>> I believe I did do some trimming back when I put OS X 10.2.8 on the HD (I >>> originally had plain old OS >>> X (10.0 and then 10.1 and then went up to 10.2.8). I did see 10.3 at the >>> Goodwill Store where I work >>> (in the back room, not on the sales floor) and if I can grab it I will >>> since I did plan to one day take this >>> HD out and put it in an external drive case, put a larger HD in this >>> machine and put 10.3 on the new >>> HD as I hear it is better than 10.2 >>> >> But your best solution is to get a bigger drive. A 20 Gb drive is >> usually plenty of room as long as you don't have any heavy data storage >> (video for example). >> >> >>> I only store text files and pics from sites like The Daily Kitten and even >>> those eventually get taken off >>> the main HD and stored elsewhere (usually a flash drive). >>> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
