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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / May 2006Need Small External HD for 700MHz G3 iBook
My wife has an 700MHz G3 iBook 14" with 30GB HD. Long ago she outgrew the size of the hard drive. After twice replacing the logic board I'm reluctant to put any more money in the computer itself but would like to expand her storage. She'd love to use one of the smaller pocket drives but after trying out the Fantom Titanium Mini I realize the iBook's older USB ports are a stumbling block (it wouldn't provide enough power to operate the external drive). Are there any other smaller USB or Firewire drives that would work with her machine? Thanks! > My wife has an 700MHz G3 iBook 14" with 30GB HD. > Long ago she outgrew the size of the hard drive. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > there any other smaller USB or Firewire drives that > would work with her machine? Thanks! More-or-less any FW drive should do the job, and the FW bus should provide plenty of power for the drive. Both of my portable external FW drives(Wiebetech ComboGB, OWC Mercury) are bus-powered.  SignatureLater, John johajohn@indianahoosiers.edu 'indiana' is a 'nolnn' and 'hoosier' is a 'solkk'. Indiana doesn't solkk. > > My wife has an 700MHz G3 iBook 14" with 30GB HD. > > Long ago she outgrew the size of the hard drive. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > provide plenty of power for the drive. Both of my portable external FW > drives(Wiebetech ComboGB, OWC Mercury) are bus-powered. I don't see why the drive needs to be bus-powered. Just get the biggest OWC Mercury Elite you can afford and plug it into the wall. Then everyone in the house can use the drive (for backup etc.). That's what I do - the portable's iTunes library is on the external drive. When using the portable portably (i.e. on the road), you don't have access to what's on the drive, but you can deal with that. Drives are cheap - way less than $1 / GB these days. m. Signaturematt neuburg, phd = matt@tidbits.com, http://www.tidbits.com/matt/ Tiger - http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/tiger-customizing.html AppleScript - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596102119 Read TidBITS! It's free and smart. http://www.tidbits.com > > > My wife has an 700MHz G3 iBook 14" with 30GB HD. > > > Long ago she outgrew the size of the hard drive. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > what's on the drive, but you can deal with that. Drives are cheap - way > less than $1 / GB these days. m. If you install a large new HD it'll still be useful if the iBook dies & you get a new machine (unless it is a MacBook, which uses SATA vs the parallel ATA in the PPC 'Books). However, installing the is not that simple; don't try without having the repair manual & right tools. Any 2.5" USB or FW hard drive should run fine and be bus-powered. The USB 1 speed of course sucks therefore no ext. drive without FW comes into my house. I bought a 2.5" FW case for our old HD (my wife has the same iBook) and it works well. It's just inconvenient having to always put the ext. drive on... 3.5" drives cannot be bus powered but in general are faster and bigger (and louder). Your choice. Mac Dude try here: (www.headgap.com) kl |
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