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Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / March 2005SATA drive swap
Hi, I want to upgrade the hard drive in my G5 iMac. Can I put the present drive (SATA) into a standard 3.5 external case to use for backups etc? You can buy them pretty cheaply. All advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Well , not really, they take ide drives You can get a sata case from try & byte but you would need to get a sata card as there is no external sata port on a g5 I would be better to leave both drives in the g5, or not worry about the smaller drive anymore andrew On 22/3/05 8:09 AM, in article BE65833D.3E3%fastd@mail2me.com.au, "Lance" <fastd@mail2me.com.au> wrote: > Hi, > I want to upgrade the hard drive in my G5 iMac. Can I put the present drive > (SATA) into a standard 3.5 external case to use for backups etc? You can buy > them pretty cheaply. > All advice is greatly appreciated. > Thanks. Oops, just read its an imac not a tower, so no u cant use it at all, just keep it as a paperweight or sell it to someone with a more expandable model. You can use it in a pc as well if it has a sata bus... Lots do now :) andrew On 22/3/05 9:53 AM, in article BE659B93.1001%macguru@ozemail.com.au, > Well , not really, they take ide drives > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> All advice is greatly appreciated. >> Thanks. > Oops, just read its an imac not a tower, so no u cant use it at all, just > keep it as a paperweight or sell it to someone with a more expandable model. > You can use it in a pc as well if it has a sata bus... Lots do now :) Actually, there are cases that can take SATA drives, although they're pretty hard to find e.g. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-146-256&depa=0 It would be a *LOT* cheaper for him to use buy a 200GB or larger IDE hdd and put it in a firewire case. > On 22/3/05 9:53 AM, in article BE659B93.1001%macguru@ozemail.com.au, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >> All advice is greatly appreciated. > >> Thanks.  Signature"Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie." -- Dennis Miller Yes there are cases for sata drives, but you would need an external sata pci card to use them, which wont work in an imac. If there are any sata to firewire bridges I have not heard of them andrew On 22/3/05 5:42 PM, in article 220320051642345973%matreya@remove_mac.com, >> Oops, just read its an imac not a tower, so no u cant use it at all, just >> keep it as a paperweight or sell it to someone with a more expandable model. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >>>> All advice is greatly appreciated. >>>> Thanks. > Yes there are cases for sata drives, but you would need an external sata pci > card to use them, which wont work in an imac. If there are any sata to > firewire bridges I have not heard of them And you call yourself a Mac guru :) Signature"Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie." -- Dennis Miller Most people are using serial ata cards to hook up the drives in cases without a bridge, this gives them the full SATA speed, ie for wide DV editing But I can see the uses for the bridged cases and im sure they would be fast enough for most users, including me. However it probably halves the performance (that's a guess) andrew On 23/3/05 9:22 PM, in article 230320052022573640%matreya@remove_mac.com, >> Yes there are cases for sata drives, but you would need an external sata pci >> card to use them, which wont work in an imac. If there are any sata to >> firewire bridges I have not heard of them > > And you call yourself a Mac guru :) >>Yes there are cases for sata drives, but you would need an external sata pci >>card to use them, which wont work in an imac. If there are any sata to >>firewire bridges I have not heard of them > > And you call yourself a Mac guru :) Jason - the man with no feet. He's shot himself in them so many times there is nothing left. You really should shut up and listen to people like Andrew who know what they are talking about. You talk drivel and can't resist dropping the hint that you have a G7 triple processor with a 10 googlebyte drive . Jason - nobody cares about you or your comments that don't contribute to the thread. You're more than likely a dropkick with an LC111 and a severe inferiority complex. GO AWAY draino > Hi, > I want to upgrade the hard drive in my G5 iMac. Can I put the present drive > (SATA) into a standard 3.5 external case to use for backups etc? You can buy > them pretty cheaply. > All advice is greatly appreciated. > Thanks. The only hope you have of reusing it with your iMac would be with a firewire case that takes a SATA drive inside. Here's an example of one... http://www.firewiremax.com/fire-wire-1394-ilink/satafirewire.html Dale Signaturedstanbro@spam.o.matic.bigpond.net.au Hi All Actually, we have just introduced a SATA to 1394b enclosure. More info can be found here. http://www.epowermac.com.au/product.asp?P_ID=398 SignatureRobert Zatta US Procurement Department Express Powermac Solutions Web: www.epowermac.com.au email: robert@epowermac.com.au AUD Ph: +61 7 5530 2693 US Ph : +1 678 643 7383 US Fax: +1 603 794 5375 > > Hi, > > I want to upgrade the hard drive in my G5 iMac. Can I put the present drive [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Dale Well there you go ! There is one, I may have to try this & see if its any faster in the real world than an ide/fw400 or ide/fw800 bridge Of course this will work for the original poster too ! Cheers andrew On 23/3/05 7:24 AM, in article Wd6dnSC3y4tYyd3fRVn-pQ@comcast.com, > Hi All > Actually, we have just introduced a SATA to 1394b enclosure. > More info can be found here. > http://www.epowermac.com.au/product.asp?P_ID=398 |
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