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The first three parts of the brain surgery series dealt with memory upgrades. This time however, the aging G5 is getting an additional hard drive, the Seagate Barracuda 250 GB SATA drive: ST3250823AS.
G5's memory upgrade
iBook 1.2GHz memory upgrade
1.67 GHz 15" PowerBook 1GB DDR-2 memory upgrade
Picking the right drive is not really that easy and most SATA drives you find at Fry's or your local PC Club probably won't work in a PowerMac G5. Fortunately, there are sites like Accelerate Your Mac, with a helpful Drive Compatibility Database.
I was looking for an inexpensive 250GB hard drive that I wanted to use as a secondary drive in the PowerMac G5 (late 2003 model, single processor 1.8 GHz) and ended up buying the ST3250823AS Seagate Barracuda at NewEgg. NewEgg is located in Whittier, CA, which means I had to pay sales tax but even with the cheapest shipping options, the drive arrived the next day.
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