I need to replace one of my hard drives for Power Mac G5

Hi guys, I've been having some trouble turning on my computer. I found out that one of my hard drives (I have two) have been damaged. The damaged hard drive is 250 gigs. Its a MAXTOR hard drive and on the top right corner it says "DiamondMax 10" Then right below that... "250GB SATA150 HDD".
My second hard drive is fine, it has 150 gigs on it. However I am not able to start up my computer with that hard drive. Anyways, my real question is (or two questions)...
1) Is it possible to "upgrade" and get a hard drive that has more memory (such as 1tb) or would I need the same model to replace the bad hard drive?
2) Where can I find a replacement? Please list some sites or retailers.
Thanks guys

Sanfradan wrote:
Hi guys, I've been having some trouble turning on my computer. I found out that one of my hard
1) Is it possible to "upgrade" and get a hard drive that has more memory (such as 1tb) or would I need the same model to replace the bad hard drive?
You can move up to 2TB if you want to, as those are getting pretty reasonable at this point. I have had a few Seagate 1TBs in backup service for a while (SATA300 versions) and have recently moved all to 2TB Hitachis because the 2TB Seagates were not 7,200 RPM. The Hitachis have been so far a breeze, but I only have a couple of months on them at this point.
Concur with BD about the "avoid green" thoughts. The SATA300 drives I obtained have all been "plug and play" with no jumpers needed, so that's another plus.
2) Where can I find a replacement? Please list some sites or retailers.
All over the place. As to retailers, out here, Best Buy and Fry's have been good, but I don't know what you have in your neighborhood. Online are all sorts of vendors and perhaps even a little more price competition, but you should not be surprised by the price variance on the same items from different sites. One thing you can do is zero in on a candidate drive and then Google the part number for wider coverage.
BTW, are you talking hardware damage or directory damage?

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