[G4] Need more hard drive space, plus other dumb questions

[Fabian Fang]

On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Amanda Jacobson Snyder wrote:

> I have a Powermac G4 I bought in 2001 and I THINK it's the Sawtooth  
> version. I recently bought some more memory for it and now I want  
> to give it more hard drive space ... it tells me I only have 1 GB  
> free. However, I'm in over my head now. I don't know where to  
> search or what to even search for! All I can find to purchase is  
> "CPU" and I have no idea if that's the right gizmo. I'm pretty  
> ignorant when it comes to hardware, as you can see.
>
> Can anyone help? Suggestions on where to buy would be great too. I  
> think my hard drive has 20 GB (I'm away from home at the moment)  
> and I'd like to get at least 20+ more ... have been doing some work  
> with digital camera raw files, and that eats up space in a hurry.
>
> Here's my other question -- I put the new memory in the memory  
> slots just fine. So are those other slots for hard drive space?

I have a PowerMac G4 (Sawtooth) identical or similar to yours.  It is  
relatively easy to replace or add hard drives in it.  A previous  
response gave a lead to Service Manuals, but you do not need a  
service manual to install hard drives.  Apple Support provides the  
following CIP (Customer Installable Parts) instructions, complete  
with illustrations and videos:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75312>

For good buys on hard drives, you may wish to take a look at the  
<http://dealmac.com> website, or Sunday newspaper flyers from  
CompUSA, BestBuy, or CircuitCity stores.  Over the weekend I just  
bought a Seagate 200GB drive with 5-year warranty for $30 after  
rebates from a local CompUSA store.

Fabian