[X Newbies] Hard drive space

[ruth]

Eugene Lee wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 08:25:42PM -0600, Jennifer Thomas wrote:
>: >
>: > I have a year 2000 model iMac (version = 32.1) 350 Mhz, Power PC G3 
>: > using Mac OSX 10.2.8.  I do not have firewire.
>: 
>: ..Is there anything special about Apple's system that requires a 
>: particular kind of Hard Drive?
>
>Nope.
>
>: Or can I buy any old drive?
>
>Older Macs (including the above) doesn't support 48-bit LBA.  The means
>that you shouldn't buy a hard drive larger than 137.4 GB, because the
>IDE hardware itself doesn't recognize hard drives this big (or bigger).
>
>The highest capacity standard hard drive you can buy is a 120 GB unit,
>as I don't think anyone makes anything larger below the above limit.
>  
>
i have a similar older imac, slot loading, 500 MHz. i believe it does not have a fan. i'd like to replace the noisy 40 GB hard drive with something 80 to 120 GB. do i have to be concerned about the heat generated by a 7200 rpm drive? or am i limited to 5400 rpms or less?
thanks,
ruth