Can my iMac take this harddrive?

[Mrious_be]

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?
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I thought this is the best choice.
First of all, the price/Gb is really amazing and i never found it this cheap in Belgium (?97 for a 60Gb drive).
But also, cause it's the first Western Digital drive, most of the local stores are on Maxtor or IBM but WD is hard to find here (and then this price)  
Thxxxxx again

[kelly]

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

[Mrious_be]

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

[kelly]

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

[Mrious_be]

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?

[kelly]

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

[Mrious_be]

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)