Success! Worth it, in my view. Both storage space and speed for some
actions clearly increased over old harddrive, and also faster than r/w
to firewire drives. New 7200 drive was partitioned into a 128G part
and a remainder (mostly unaccessed!) part, and I cloned the system
into the former. The
On Saturday, 17 December 2011 at 16:36, Tina K. wrote:
On 2011/12/16 21:36, Dennis Faulkner so eloquently wrote:
As somewhat of a novice, what would too hot for Imac's mean - would that
mean
that you would need to upgrade the fan further,
or house this drive in a external housing, or
On 2011/12/16 21:36, Dennis Faulkner so eloquently wrote:
As somewhat of a novice, what would too hot for Imac's mean - would that mean
that you would need to upgrade the fan further,
or house this drive in a external housing, or what?
The Al plate that the boards are mounted to in the G3
That Maxtor will work, but why not go for a 7200rpm and up to a 120gb
hdd? OWC has a 160gb hdd @ 7200rpm for $83.00.
Here's the link.
http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cfm?
Ntk=PrimaryNs=P_Popularity%7c1Ne=5000N=6900Ntt=3.5+Internal+IDE%
2fATA
If you iMac has a 5400 in it now, a
If you are looking for a 120GB+ solution. look no further:
www.speedtools.com/ATA6
Install this driver for $25 on any PowerPC Mac running Mac OS X 10.4 or
later, then install anything in terms of capacity.
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:05 AM, J. R. Rosen jrose...@sbcglobal.netwrote:
That
Thank you all.
Re the speed of drive, I have read in Macworld's article about
upgrading these g3's that: 1. A 5,400-rpm ATA or Ultra ATA hard drive
(faster drives may be too hot for iMacs).
I am sitting on the fence about upgrading from current 10.3 to 10.4.
Probably I will do it... The
