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Title: Can my iMac take this harddrive?
Post by: Mrious_be on April 19, 2003, 08:13:00 AM

My iMac's specs are posted at the signature, and this is the harrdrive i found.

Few things where i'm still not sure off:

is it a 3,5" harddrive that my iMacs has?
i heard there might be a problem with overheating the harddrive in the iMac, although others say they never really encountered that problem?
is the harddrive i posted, using IDE?

Title: Can my iMac take this harddrive?
Post by: kelly on April 19, 2003, 09:38:00 AM

Yes you can use that.

Your imac has a 3.5"

Laptops are 2.5"

IDE ATA for all intents are same thing.

It will work fine.

Doubt you'll have any heat problems.

Go here and look under your specific choices.

http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/sear...h.drivedb.lasso

Title: Can my iMac take this harddrive?
Post by: Mrious_be on April 19, 2003, 10:26:00 AM

quote:
Originally posted by kelly:
Your imac has a 3.5"
Laptops are 2.5"
IDE ATA for all intents are same thing.

Heyyy, thanks
I was thinking that about 2,5" being used for laptops but wasn't sure, cause the iMac is such a compact design
Hmmm, i must say, when clicking on the url you provided, i had a message saying "client can't connect" or something like that.
Not sure what the url was about, but if you were showing a page with "take appart manual" for the iMac... this page is what i already found in doing so

As you noticed maybe, it's a pc shop, and my friend is going to order a brand new "build to order" pc with them, so i'll probably aske him to order the WD drive to.
Actually, when i told him i heard Western Digital drives are the best out there, he told me he's going to check it out, and maybe change from Maxtor to WD
Sooo... he might not buy a mac, but at least he listens, hehehe

Thanks for answers

Title: Can my iMac take this harddrive?
Post by: kelly on April 19, 2003, 10:53:00 AM

That link is to the xlr8yourmac Drive Database.

They're having problems today.

WD Hard Drives are kind of in fashion right now.

People are excited about the ones with the 8 MB Cache.

I remmember when people didn't like them too much.

I've always liked Maxtors myself.

Whatever.

Seems IBM Drives are now under Hitatchi.

http://www.hgst.com/hdd/desk/ds180gxp.htm

Title: Can my iMac take this harddrive?
Post by: Mrious_be on April 19, 2003, 10:57:00 AM

quote:
Originally posted by kelly:
WD Hard Drives are kind of in fashion right now.
People are excited about the ones with the 8 MB Cache.

Yeah, they had the 8Mb Cache drives in that store to, but they are much more expensive.
And it said they came with a FLAT ATA connection, so i don't think it's same connection as IDE.
I think i remember those FLAT ATA connections, and they really are flatter than the standard IDE connections.
I thought they are more used in Servers?

Title: Can my iMac take this harddrive?
Post by: kelly on April 19, 2003, 11:15:00 PM

I haven't heard the term Flat Cable.

I think they're mostly Flat.

http://www.micro-wiz.com/cable.html

Newer IDE Cables have 40-pins 80 conductors.

"80-pin cable (which looks just like a standard IDE cable, but with 80 wires)"

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answers...2399454,00.html

Sometimes they Round the cables.

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/showtel...3305685,00.html

The future is probably Serial ATA.

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/superge...3407300,00.html

Title: Can my iMac take this harddrive?
Post by: Mrious_be on April 19, 2003, 11:23:00 PM

Hmmm, future looks good with Serial ATA

I don't know why i said Flat ATA (i think it's just cause it looked flat) but this is what it said:
Interface Type : DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra)