[G4] Much Ado About Harddrives

[James Asherman]

No, those will not drop into a sawtooth.
  You would need a SATA adapter card. Then it would work.
In the G5 those WD SATA drives pop right in and even though they say  
"PC" they work just fine.
The good news is drives for your machine tho' smaller, should be  
cheaper.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/3.5-IDE-ATA/

Jim

On Jan 16, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Kevin Walsh wrote:

> Howdy do fine people -
> the recent thread on diskspace/harddrives has been
> very stimulating as I myself am currently undertaking
> such an overhaul on 2 different Macs.  I appreciate
> all the information I have gained from you brainiacs.
> I have an issue to add to the harddrive craze.  I
> visited a local computer store in my ultra-hip
> central-Texas town and asked for any mac hardware.
> The propeiter, a decent fellow, offered to sell an
> Indigo iMac for 30 bucks.  I refused because 2 are
> enough for me but that's besides the point.  Other
> than that he didn't have anything specifically for
> Macs.  I didn't take no for an answer and decided to
> pry into his stock of SD RAM and ATA harddrives.  He
> had several new Western Digital SATA 250 GB HD's for
> 75 bucks a pop.  What a steal.  I thought I'd do some
> research to see if the model is compatible for my
> Sawtooth.  BTW, here's the model #: WD2500JS.
> I found some useful info at the following URL:
> http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1343&p_created=1112716146
>
> The info there might aswell be in Russian for me.  Any
> of you wise-guys mind taking a gander at it - see why
> wouldn't it be Mac compatible.
> Thanks - Kevin
>
>
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