Hard drive size PowerPC G5

conleycd · Post by **conleycd** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:16 pm

So...

Does anyone know if I can fit a 1 Terabyte harddrive in my dual G5? Does the bios of the Mac support this?

Any insight would be great. Thanks.

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newrigel · Post by **newrigel** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:46 am

BIOS???
Your kidding right?

chucks · Post by **chucks** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 5:30 am

Call the folks at OWC (http://www.macsales.com) - not only great prices, but great tech support. They'd take it back if they recommended it and you had difficulties. There were drive size limits on some earlier powermacs and powerbooks, 128 gig, but I believe that went away years ago. Yours probably shipped with something bigger than that anyway. The terabyte drives are pretty new, so there may be some issues though. As for the very helpful BIOS comment, Powermacs have FIRMWARE. Something has to handle the boot sequence. TomAto - Tomato.

conleycd · Post by **conleycd** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 12:20 pm

I know my mac has firmware - when I wrote the post for the life of me I couldn't remember the term they used instead of bios. It is basically a bios. Just like their Logic Board is a Motherboard. Interesting though, for those who remember, PCs used to have "Logic Boards" that were ISA cards to handle COM1 ports and LPT1 ports and - well all the other crap that PCs crappy. I guess I might be talking to a forum of people who avoided all that silliness all together!

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