Will the SATA work with the 500g SATA HD??? 1.5tb is way too big and the price is higher... I will buy the card if it's a better set up then the PATA drive... She wants to do web design with this machine...
-----Original Message----- >From: JoeTaxpayer <joetaxpaye...@gmail.com> >Sent: Jul 26, 2010 1:58 PM >To: G-Group <g3-5-list@googlegroups.com> >Subject: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!! > >On Jul 26, 12:39 pm, Richard Gerome <onecoolka...@earthlink.net> >wrote: >> I found this on newegg for $55.00 do you think it would be good for this >> computer??? I can't seem to find any better deals on ebay and this is a new >> one... >> Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA >> 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive... >> Also I heard some mention about a SATA PCI card, will I still need to get >> this to make better improvement to this machine and will it help the HD >> too??? Thank You!!! Rich > >Nice drive, ok price, not really. But wrong for the G4. You have a >PATA ready Mac. >It depends on what you want to do. Simplest is to buy a 500GB PATA >drive. >But- If you want most expansion - get a sata card and go with 1.5TB >sata drives. > >-- >You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 >For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list Scars only tell us where we have been, they do not have to dictate where we are going... -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
