hard drives for G5

masterjedi73

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Jan 19, 2004

• #1

Will Western Digital Hard Drives work for the Powermac G5s? The requirement say:

IDE - ATA/EIDE/ATAPI 40 pin Header


System Requirements: This drive is compatible with all PCs and Macs that have the appropriate speed ATA interface available.


Thanks for your help

 

Flynnstone

macrumors 65816

• Jan 19, 2004

• #2

You need a Serial ATA (SATA) drive for a G5. What you have described is a parallel ATA (PATA, IDE...) drive. The G5 only accepts a SATA drive.

 

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Mblazened

macrumors regular

• Jan 19, 2004

• #3

western digital does make SATA drives though

 

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Vinny

macrumors newbie

• Jan 20, 2004

• #4

I have a Western Digital Raptor, which is SATA. Will this work with the G5's?

http://westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=40

Thanks !

 

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Mblazened

macrumors regular

• Jan 20, 2004

• #5

cool drive
it will work
use disk utility to format it if necessary