Re: [PLUG] Old hard drive laying around?

[Amul Shah <amul@amulz.com>]

HD brand and model are not important in Desktop Macs.  For Laptop  
Macs, go to NewEgg and read the reviews by Mac owners.

The only thing that is important is the interface, which should be IDE  
for you.  You might have a disk capacity limitation based on older  
hardware (for the jokers: Intel machines of the same age have similar  
limitations).  If you have disks lying around, put one of them in  
there an reinstall.

Which model G4 do you have?

HTH,
Amul

On Jul 16, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:

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> Doug:
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> Since I'm trying to swap the electronics on the drive I suspect that  
> brand is
> essential and model is probably important.  This is a 180 Gig  
> Western Digital
> Caviar drive so I'm guessing that at least a WD Caviar of similar  
> capacity would
> be required.  Please let me know if you have any WD Caviar drives in  
> the bunch.
> All I have is a boat-load of old Maxtor drives and a couple of  
> Seagate Barracudas.
>
> At my wife's suggestion I'm looking at ebay and craig's list too.
>
> Thanks
> Eric
>
> On 07/16/2010 01:08 PM, Douglas Muth wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Eric at Lucii.org  
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> > > My son's G4 Mac died and apparently it's due to the hard drive not  
> > > working.  I
> > > put the drive in an external case and it did not spin-up so I  
> > > suspect the
> > > electronics board is bad.
> > >
> > > I'd like to try swapping the electronics to see if we can get it  
> > > working.  If
> > > anyone has an old Western Digital Caviar WD1800 (IDE) drive laying  
> > > around and
> > > they'd be willing to donate it or sell it for a small sum you'd  
> > > make a certain
> > > 18 year old music fan VERY happy.
> >
> > Does it have to be that specific brand and model?
> >
> > I was actually going through some old hard drives last night and  
> > still
> > hvae some working ones that you can have (once I wipe them).
> >
> > -- Doug
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