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Title: Seagate 500GB IDE Hard Drive $100
Post by: kelly on June 13, 2007, 10:21:12 PM

Seagate 500GB IDE Internal Hard Drive for $100 shipped

http://dealmac.com/deals/Seagate-500-GB-ID...ped/172751.html

Title: Seagate 500GB IDE Hard Drive $100
Post by: sandbox on June 13, 2007, 10:51:07 PM

I have a firewire enclosure with a 160 gig in it, do you think there would be a size or connector restriction?

Title: Seagate 500GB IDE Hard Drive $100
Post by: krissel on June 14, 2007, 03:41:36 AM

You may need to contact the enclosure manufacturer. Read through this thread.

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Some vendor-specific external drive enclosures (Maxtor) are known to use HPA to limit the capacity of unknown replacement hard drives installed into the enclosure. When this occurs, the drive may appear to be limited in size (e.g. 128GB). In this case, one must use software utilities (see below) that use READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS and SET MAX ADDRESS to change the drive's reported size back to its native size.
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http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-35676.html

Title: Seagate 500GB IDE Hard Drive $100
Post by: kelly on June 14, 2007, 07:10:01 AM

Since it already supports larger than 128 GB, it should work.

If not. Time for a new Enclosure.

Title: Seagate 500GB IDE Hard Drive $100
Post by: krissel on June 15, 2007, 12:39:51 AM

More than one person in the macosxhints link had a larger drive originally in their enclosure but found it would only recognize 128G when they went to replace it. Hence the warning.

Title: Seagate 500GB IDE Hard Drive $100
Post by: sandbox on June 15, 2007, 02:34:06 AM

The enclosure I was hoping to use is an OWC Neptune.

I now have a variety of bare drives in storage. I buy a complete backup drive and when it's full, I replace it with a bare drive. The Neptune came with a 40 gig originally, and since then it's had 4 different drives in it, the largest of which is the 160 gig. These larger drives just might hit the limit, and if they do I'll buy a large external drive and start again.

Hey Kris, do you still have that large steel SCSI box that we both bought way back when? Did you ever alter it somehow? I like the idea of using it, seeing it had accommodations for 2 drives. Maybe a scsi to firewire adaptor would work, if there is such a thing?

Title: Seagate 500GB IDE Hard Drive $100
Post by: Xairbusdriver on June 15, 2007, 12:37:38 PM

I've been lusting after this kind of price for an Hitachi model of this size!

This is close but has half the buffer and only 3 year warranty. And I know I'd need to get a new external box, the only one I could use ( has a 10Gig drive in it ) is surely not SATA. Oh well...
<Hitachi 500Gig ( multi-platter )>

Title: Seagate 500GB IDE Hard Drive $100
Post by: krissel on June 17, 2007, 01:00:07 AM

Yup, still have it sitting on a table totally disassembled. I was going to put my two large SCSI drives in it and see if I could use the double unit as a giant external. But I ended up putting one of the SCSI drives (36G) internally in my DA and the other (50G) in an external case which previously held an old 2G SCSI drive. Each does work in their present locations so the large box just sits. The main reason I was unsure about using it was the power requirements for my two drives appeared to stretch the limits of the power capability on the label of the box.

Yes, there is a SCSI/FW adapter called FRISX and a USB one also. But they aren't cheap and you then need the proper adapter for the ports.

http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/FR1SX.html

http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/U2SCX.html

It's a shame to see something that was quite usable be relegated to the recycling pile. For some reason I'm hanging on to it but why I don't know. The drive as you know is huge, heavy and not worth much at 'only' 9G. Suppose it would make a good boat anchor.

Title: Seagate 500GB IDE Hard Drive $100
Post by: sandbox on June 17, 2007, 01:39:32 AM

Wow, they're real proud of that adaptor, aren't they? $109.00? cheeze

The Box is really solid, I've used it as a step.  

I'm in no hurry, when I can buy an adaptor for $20 bucks I'll put the (name escapes me) back on line.