Found Power Mac G5 2005. Need hard drive.

[lipskidder]

Hi, so I found a beautiful G5 at the local flea market. It's one i always wanted at home but could only have at my place of employment. anyways, I want to make certain that it works but there was no internal drive inside. Where can I find an appropriate drive that is inexpensive just in case the computer doesn't work. If the computer does work, I don't mind upgrading to a better drive and using this first one as a second. With the newer, faster ones out there, I don't want to have to mod this to try it out. Help?

 

[Macbookprodude]

Hi,

Ebay is your friend. You can find Sata I/II and some SataIII drives there, or you can get an SSD sled and place that along with an ssd drive in the G5. The prices are not too bad on ebay for 3.5 inch SATA II/III drives, but not all SATA III drives will work. Remember, the G5, including mine which is a Quad G5 all use SATA I - 150GB / Sec.

Here is an example of many:

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[Certificate of Excellence]

Plug in a monitor and boot it. Regardless of the hdd, it should boot into a flashing folder/question mark icon. If it does that, it’s telling you the box is good to go but where’s my hard drive? Install a new hdd and fresh OSX will get you going.

I recommend a 128ssd boot drive and large 1T+ large storage drive - both Sata connector. These can be easily sourced all over the www.

Copies of OSX can be found on Macintosh garden.

 

[eyoungren]

Just to add to what @Certificate of Excellence has said, try and find either SATA I or SATA II drives. No G5 supports SATA III. That said, most SATA III drives can be jumpered down so if you do get a SATA III drive make sure it can be jumpered.

A used ~100GB SATA drive on eBay will run around $20-40. You don't really want anything less than that I think.

 

[Macbookprodude]

Just to add to what @Certificate of Excellence has said, try and find either SATA I or SATA II drives. No G5 supports SATA III. That said, most SATA III drives can be jumpered down so if you do get a SATA III drive make sure it can be jumpered.

A used ~100GB SATA drive on eBay will run around $20-40. You don't really want anything less than that I think.

I did mention that to him. I gave him an eBay link to one such drive.

 

[lipskidder]

Thanks everyone. I did plug it in and did get the flashing icon. I am trying to find a temp drive so i can see what else the system has installed.

 

[TzunamiOSX]

Just to add to what @Certificate of Excellence has said, try and find either SATA I or SATA II drives. No G5 supports SATA III. That said, most SATA III drives can be jumpered down so if you do get a SATA III drive make sure it can be jumpered.

A used ~100GB SATA drive on eBay will run around $20-40. You don't really want anything less than that I think.

No Problems with all tested SSDs on my G5 2004. I prefer Sandisk SSD Plus on old SATA or ATA Macs.

 

[JoseFromPhilly]

i have a 1TB hard drive i removed from a PMG5 - yours for the asking and if you could reemburse the shipping that would be great - was working great but had some problems (pretty sure it was with the Logic board) but i put a lot of stress on the Hard Drive installing and re-installing OS, and were a bunch of crashes but best i could tell it was RAM related - last time i ran the Hardware check it said everything was ok on the drive

anyway yours for the asking can't say its works now but it was and its free so little to lose