[MacDV] Maxtor 160GB (Blue and White G3)

[Richard Gilmore]

I just put a Western Digital 160 GB 7200 rpm hard drive in my Beige G3 (on sale 
for $100 with an 8 meg cache!). You're right it does have a 137 GB limit 
because of 28 bit addressing (whatever that is) and the difference in how the 
bits are counted 1k being 1024 bits instead of 1000 it actually boils down to 
127 GB. It works just fine that way. For me that's enough space and the day I 
buy a G5 (likely far away) I know I'll get that extra space back. 

If you buy one try and get one with an 8 meg cache as opposed to a 2 megs it 
will work faster.

cheers

Richard

Quoting chrisandheather at shaw.ca:

> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know if I can install a hard drive this size on my Blue and 
> White G3? I thought someone here awhile back said the built in limit 
> was 137GB. Would it work and format to that size? Does anyone know? Has 
> anyone tried it??
> 
> Chris
>