Hard drive size in powermac

[pianodude123]

I know that the most storage I could have in my Mac the time I bought it was 800 GB. (two 400 GB HDs) Is this a limit, or now that they make 500 GB HDs, can I insert a 500 GB hard drive?

 

[livingfortoday]

Is this a G3, G4 or G5? The G4's (the later ones) and G5's can take the 500GB drives. Early G4's and G3's cannot take drives over 120GB without a PCI controller card.

Edit: Ah, I see you have a PowerMac G5. Yeah, it'll take the 500GB drive.

 

[pianodude123]

The one in my Sig.

 

[pianodude123]

When they make bigger drives...what is the max it will support?

 

[livingfortoday]

When they make bigger drives...what is the max it will support?

You know, I can't find any info on that. All I've found is that people have even installed the 750GB Seagates in their PM G5's with no problems, so I don't think you have anything to worry about.

From xlr8yourmac.com:

Reviewer's Name: Wolf
Date Submitted: 6/27/2006
Drive Type: Hard Drive
Drive Interface: IDE (Serial ATA onboard)
Drive Brand: Seagate
Drive Model Number: ST3750640AS Barracuda 7200.10
Drive Size: 750GB
Driver Used: Apple Standard
Mac Model: Apple G5 Tower
Mac OS Version: OS X 10.4
Reader Comments: Apple G5 Quad (4x2.5GHz), 8GB RAM, OS X 10.4.6.
I installed two of these drives in the normal G5 storage bay. After formatting both of them everything worked 100%, no sleep problems or other issues. I didn¥t change any jumpersettings on the drives.

 

[mrichmon]

When they make bigger drives...what is the max it will support?

The later PowerMacs support 48-bit LBA (Logical Block Addressing) for hard drives. This means that the hardware will support up to 2TB hard drives. In all likelihood you will be several computers away from your PowerMac before we get near 2TB individual drives.