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Hard drive upgrade on Dual G4 PM

adamfilip

adamfilip

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I need to add another hard drive to my dads Dual 1.0 PowerMac G4
how large of a hard drive can i add easily to this machine?
its running Tiger
 
You can handle greater then 128 GB hard drives. That is unless it's an upgraded Mac older then the Quicksilver 2002.
 
I think it is a QuickSilver tower. But i can't remember if they had the HD size limits on those towers, or maybe i am thinking of something else [software]?

Anyway, i have two 120GB drives and another two 80GB drives in my Dual 1.42 G4 [Windtunnel] tower. Bigger drives can be found pretty cheap now a days. I would do a search on Newegg.com, and see what sort of deals you can find for internal IDE drives.

good luck, ryan
 
Check this out.

If it's a stock dual 1ghz (i.e. Quicksilver 2002 or Mirror Drive Door), then you can use any size drive. Otherwise, there's a 137 gb limit.
 
aquajet said:
Check this out.

If it's a stock dual 1ghz (i.e. Quicksilver 2002 or Mirror Drive Door), then you can use any size drive. Otherwise, there's a 137 gb limit.
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Thanks for the FYI, i didn't know i could go [250+] that high.
 
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