[G4] Internal Hard Drive compatibility for AGP

[B G]

Since you already are aware of the size limitation and assuming you  
do not want to go to a larger drive support setup(either hardware of  
software driven).  You can use and drive that is IDE compatible  
expect to pay around .50 a gigabyte, you can do better if you look  
for sales and rebates.

I like to use Dealmac (http://dealmac.com/).

But any of the price search engines are good. Nextag, pricewatch,  
streetprice, pricescan, etc. There are lots of them

The prices change almost daily on drives sometimes the office supply  
stores have deals.

Look for something in the 80- 160 Gb size range and expect to pay  
around $30 to 80 for them.

The best prices are the  7200 RPM with a 8 mb buffer drives.

I personally like Seagate or Maxtor drives myself, have had almost no  
failures over the years.


Brian

G4 gigE 1.0 GHz Powerlogix, 1 GB RAM

On Jan 3, 2007, at 1:51 PM, JayB wrote:

> I've looked back through 6 mos of archive and read the specs at  
> 'lowendmac.com' but still don't feel l have confidence in knowing  
> what I can buy to upgrade the internal drives in my G4/500 AGP  
> (upgraded to an Sonnet ST 1ghtz).  It has factory 2x18 Ultra2  
> SCSI / Dual card drives.
>
> My question is- can I buy pretty much any IDE drive to replace one  
> or both the internals?  I know about the 128mb max.  But I just  
> want to upgrade (cheaply) to larger drives without suffering speed  
> (I thought the 7200 ultras were supposed to be the fastest).   
> Specific suggestions and sources would be much appreciated.
>
> Also, are airport cards for older g4s like mine available?  (since  
> I have a wireless router already in use for my laptop).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> ~Jay
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