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bunnspecial

macrumors G3
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May 3, 2014
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I have a Macintosh SE(FDHD) with a dead internal hard drive. If I'm not mistaken, the original hard drive in the computer would be somewhere around 20mb.

Looking around Ebay, 50 pin SCSI drives in the 20-40mb range are fairly pricey, no doubt due to guys like me trying to fix these older computers.

A while back, I upgraded the original 512mb Quantum HDD in my 7100 to a 1gb drive. So, that leaves me with a spare 512mb 50-pin SCSI HDD lying around.

Is there any possibility of a drive this large working in the SE, or do I need to hunt down something closer to the original capacity?
 

MacTech68

macrumors 68020
Mar 16, 2008
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It should be fine with a 512MB HD.

According to Apple, the maximum volume size for System 6, 7.0.x & 7.1.x is 2GB.

System 7.5.0 maximum is 4GB

System 7.5.2+ maximum is 2TB
 

Anonymous Freak

macrumors 603
Dec 12, 2002
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I had a 9 GB, 10,000 RPM hard drive in my SE/30 for a while. Ran just fine. (Had to add a fan, because that HD generated quite a bit of heat - and I wouldn't try to use any add-in cards or CPU upgrades that might draw more power...)
 
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