4 TB HDD for iMac (2007)

Will my iMac 20", 2,66 Core 2 Duo (2007) work with 2TB or 4TB internal hard drive instead of its native 320 GB?

If speed is critical then you should upgrade to a new computer. Yes an ESATA HDD is faster than FW800 however why go to the time, money and frustratation of upgrading a 5+  year old machine when newer machines would dramatically improve performance. I use Aperture for managing my photos and use FW800 external drives for storing large libraries such as my photo's, music and movies. The performance is fine, not as fast as SATA but very good and I also have a late 2007 iMac. However if the performance really bugged me then I'd buy a new machine, which I plan on but not right now. I also have a 320GB internal HD but it still has 200GB free

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