What is the largest Hard Drive will fit

[jtt]

in my Dual 2.3 G5? Is it 400gb?

thanks

 

[netdog]

Seagate 750GB

At least I think it is Seagate

 

[yankeefan24]

Is this the DC or DP? I think you can have up to 750 per slot on the DC, but I'm not sure about the DPs (or if they even made a DP 2.3).

 

[yippy]

I believe that hard drive sizes have not yet reached the limit of serial ATA. This means that you can put as big of a drive as you can find in it.

 

[emaja]

Check out XLR8yourmac.com and their drive compatibility database. There are a few users who have used the 750GB Seagate 7200.10 drives in their Power Macs.

The .10 drives have the troublesome - for Macs anyway - SSC disabled and have the jumpers set for 1.5Gbit/s which will allow those drives to work fine with the Mac SATA controller.

 

[jtt]

Is this the DC or DP? I think you can have up to 750 per slot on the DC, but I'm not sure about the DPs (or if they even made a DP 2.3).

DP

 

[iGary]

DP

800GB is the limit for that machine - combined.

 

[jtt]

800GB is the limit for that machine - combined.

That's what iThought.
Thanks Gary

 

[NATO]

Could someone confirm before I order 2x750GB Seagate SATA Drives that these will *NOT* work in a Dual Processor 2.0GHz Power Mac G5?

 

[NATO]

I've checked Apple's specifications page and it lists a maximum number of drives (2) but no maximum capacity.

Has anyone installed large capacity drives in a dual-processor Power Mac G5 with no issues? I'd really like to order these asap, but I can't seem to find a definite answer from google or Apple's support pages.

 

[Macmadant]

Does anyone know What the limit is on my powermac G4 (MDD version) BTW No it hasn't got the 128 gb limit

 

[MacsAttack]

I believe that hard drive sizes have not yet reached the limit of serial ATA. This means that you can put as big of a drive as you can find in it.

I thinkk the limit is something like 144 petabytes (1 petabyte = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes)

We are nowhere near that...