I've been running my iMac DV with an internal 120GB 7200RPM Samsung
drive in it for a couple of years now. No problems with heat and it's
much quieter than the original drive. Seagate's HDs used to run
hotter than other manufacturers' drives, though at one time, IIRC, so
if that's what you have, that may be a little on the hot side for a
G3's case.
Adam Wilde
On 24 Jan 2006, at 01:09, iMac List wrote:
From: "Richard Colbert Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iMac DV FW Boot disk
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:49:53 -0600
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One additional note, it is not advised to use a 7200/10000 RPM
drive in an
iMac as they run much hotter than the 5400 that comes in the iMacs.
There is
insufficient cooling/thermal dissipation to accommodate the new
drive. I
tried it on my iMac G3 "Tangerine" 400Mhz. using a 7200 RPM Seagate
drive
and running Ubuntu 5.10. With Ubuntu sitting idle the hard drive
got so hot
I couldn't touch it, and that was with the case open. I had to take
the
drive out and put the original 5400 Maxtor back in.
I would suggest you put the 7200 RPM 30GB in the Firewire enclosure
and
install OSX on it. At least until you can find a way to increase
the cooling
in the iMac to accommodate that drive.
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