Loretta Shigo Posted June 28, 2004 Share Posted June 28, 2004 Hi. . I need to add a hard drive to my Mac G5 to store video media. Any differnces between internal or external I should know about? I am new to this technology and went store shopping. Did not buy anthing. Went on line shopping. Found SATA drives on ebay. Seagate and Maxtor. Brand New, Sealed in Original Packaging.. Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 250Gb Internal Hard Drive. Featuring: -8Mb Cache -7200 RPM Motor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted June 28, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted June 28, 2004 Hi, Fine, assuming your G5 has SATA interfacing (which I seem to remember they do.) This is just an alternate interface for IDE hard drives - especially at the moment, they're using the same physical mechanism with a different electronics board on it, the performance is near identical - although many salesmen will claim that the SATA interface is faster, the drives themselves aren't capable of feeding it any more data than normal IDE. As to internal or external, well, as a Mac user you will be used to paying 150% of the price for a nice curvy piece of pink polka-dotted plastic to put your hard drive in, but depending on the base configuration of your G5 it will have one or more internal bays free. Mac dealers will swear blind you have to buy special drives for Macs. You don't. Just buy the cheapest SATA you can find. Better, buy two, and soft RAID them. This is also kind of offtopic for here - the guys at dv.com will give you more answers, but really this is simple enough. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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