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Replacing Hard Drive
Name: Miss JM Date: January 9, 2003 at 20:32:56 Pacific OS: 9.0.1 CPU/Ram: 450 mghz 196 mb
Comment:
Hello! What should one do to replace an old hard drive? What kind of hard drive may I install to replace Ultra 66 ATA hard drive in a Power Mac G4 450 mghz? How much should is it? Thanks so very much!
Name: ChrisP Date: January 9, 2003 at 20:49:20 Pacific
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Replacing a hard drive is quite simple. Apple's technical support site, and your manual that came with the computer, give instructions on how to do it. Most hard drives made today for the personal market are ATA drives. And, most of those will work fine with an ATA66 controller. The cost is however much you want to spend on a drive. Drives in the single GB range will be incredibly cheap, while drives up to 200 or so GB will be about ... 300 dollars.
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Response Number 2
Name: the pickle Date: January 9, 2003 at 21:08:46 Pacific
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Check http://deal-mac.com before you buy a hard disk.
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Response Number 3
Name: Miss JM Date: January 10, 2003 at 16:41:41 Pacific
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Thank you so much for your advice. I do find it weird that my hard drive, ata-66 10 gig had a mechanical failure, a head crash told by my repair man. It has been in use for 2 1/2 years. I didn't move it while it crashed. What do you think the reason was?
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Response Number 4
Name: the pickle Date: January 10, 2003 at 20:43:28 Pacific
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Well, statistically, *someone's* drive had to fail. Unfortunately, you were "someone" this time :(
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