Mac Forum / General / Hardware / October 2004

http://www.dealmac.com/>

Pick a reliable vendor from among the deals currently available.

Good luck finding anything that small.

G

I got a Seagate Barracuda for our iMac a few months ago, the original
was a Maxtor, which went belly-up. FWIW, I went for an 80GB unit as it
was only 5ukp more than a 40GB, and it was still less than 50ukp with
tax an postage.

My favorite search sites for this sort of thing are:

       http://www.pricewatch.com/
       http://froogle.google.com/

You can search for a dealer/price with these.  But not everybody
listed is reputable, so afterwards, I look up the dealer here:

       http://www.resellerratings.com/

and only buy from dealers that have good ratings.

I think think you can go very wrong with any of these.  I think
Seagate has the best reputation right now.  The last two drives I
bought were Maxtor (because they were the best price).

Your G3 should be able to use any drive up to 137G (the way HD makers
measure storage - 128G the way software measures it.)

You probably won't find people selling new drives smaller than 40G
these days.  But that's not a problem, they're not really that
expensive.

FWIW, I've seen local stores selling 120G drives for under $100 (after
rebates) recently.

-- David