Powermac G4: HD in zip bay? will it work?

It should...I did the same a few years back on my old Blue and White to avoid sucking ATA bandwidth from my boot drive.

I wondered this same thing when i had my dual G4 450. and the answer is no. it will not work, because the carriage for the zip drive is fit for the zip drive, and not a 3.5" HD.

the only desktops that would allow this were the Beige G3 mini towers, and the MDD G4 towers.

Zip drives are 3.5-inch drives, just like floppy drives and most desktop hard drives. I can 99% guarantee that there will be no problems.

OK, my bad. The whole time i was writing that i was thinking about an optical drive and not a HD. Sorry.

Well, maybe it will work.

StealthRider said:

Zip drives are 3.5-inch drives, just like floppy drives and most desktop hard drives. I can 99% guarantee that there will be no problems.

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I've been thinking of actually replacing the ZIP drive in mine with a USB hub of some sort.

It will work technically. First though, at least with the B&W 400 and quicksilver 933 towers is that the hard drive will fit very very tighly in the bay and the slot in the back in lines up for a zip drive, not a hard drive. So it will work in the slot, it just may require some work to get it in there. The other downside is a hard drive will create alot of heat. It will get hot being crammed into the zip bay and then resting right against the optical drive. Those are the two downsides i have noticed.