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pinetec

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Original poster
Mar 21, 2006
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I have an old PowerMac G4 7400 (450 Mhz) and I'd like to use it to replace an old Micron PC I'm using as a file server. My question is, what is the largest size HD I can install in it? I checked Mactracker and it said it only supported up to 128 GB per drive. But I didn't know if this was related to the OS at the time or whether it was a hardward limitation. If I'm running Tiger on it would it support a larger 500GB drive?

If it is a hardware limitation I guess I could always add a couple external firewire drives.

Let me know if this should have been posted in the "collectible forum".

Thanks
Michael
 

bartelby

macrumors Core
Jun 16, 2004
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Nope, it's hardware limitations if you're using the existing hardware. Add a sata card, for example, and you can chuck in what you like IIRC.
 
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