G4 + New HD

the easy answer is yes, any IDE drive will work. The ATA spec is supposed to be backwards compatible (there are some gotchas with this) any drive should be ok. The only concern that still seems to matter is with drives larger than 128Gig.. you'll need an ATA 133 controller to use all of a drive larger than that. Right now I have 4 Western Digital 80gig drives on my 867. (2 internal, 2 in firewire enclosures) that I am very happy with, but we have had a pretty high failure rate with the Maxtor 80's.

I have used Maxtor 40GB drives without any issues or problems.

stay a way of the "ez quest" HD

I bought a 40 gb HD last summer, I have had to take the disk 3 times to the apple store here in iceland for repairs each time spending 40.000, kr = 400$

3*400$=1200$

this HD is the most expensive one in ICELAND

The apple store cant pin point the problem.

rgds
Bjarni

bingimar,

What brand hard drive do you have the problems with, and where did you get it?

Ensign Paris

It's a pretty simple operation, Ensign.

However, if you want additional performance, you might consider keeping the original drive and then adding (2) identical IDE drives to create a software RAID 0 array under OS X.

Actually, I'm just living vicariously through you. I've been wanting to try out OS X's software RAID feature for a while.