What brand and part # of hard drive does Apple use when they upgrade the iMac G5 early 2008 up to a 1TB. The existing 320GB is a Seagate but I wanted to know the most compatible 1TB since I am upgrading.
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iMac G5 early 2008 Hard Drive upgrade
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There are only two types of HDDs used in Macs: IDE and SATA. I *think* all the PowerPCs had IDEs, so any IDE drive should work. The iMac uses 3.5" drives though.
I would advise just getting an external Firewire drive as if you don't know this much about hard drives, you are going to have a hard time replacing the drive.
I would advise just getting an external Firewire drive as if you don't know this much about hard drives, you are going to have a hard time replacing the drive.
2008 iMac G5? Are you sure you don't mean 2005 G5? Or Intel iMac 2008?
G5s were all SATA.
Except for the Educational 17" iMac G5 that also lacked a optical drive, modem, and was the Geforce MX4000, but yeah, generally all SATA heh.