PowerMac G5 early2005 Max Total hard drive Gb = ???

Is it possible to install more than 1 Tb of hard drive into a PowerMac G5 , early 2005, dual 2 gHz. Right now the information I have says that I can only install two 500 Gb drives. I don't know if I can install a one 1 Tb drive or install two 1 Tb drives in each bay.
Much thanks for any help.

Properly jumpered for SATA-1 compatibility, 2TB drives are no problem. 3TB drives with GUID partition maps should work fine for data, though if you wish to boot from one, you will need to format it with an Apple Partition Map (APM) scheme and partition it so that no partition is greater than about 2.2 TB. I have two 2TB Hitachis (no jumpers needed) in this G5 machine (first generation) right now.

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Hello, everybody!
My name is Evelyn Harvey.
I know that I am probably overlooking something obvious, but I hope that you all will bear with me!
I have noticed that when I click on the "waste paper basket", it tells me items are in the trash, and how many GB worth of stuff is in the trash, and how much free space (rounded off to the nearest tenth of a gigabyte, I believe), is still available on my hard drive.
What I can't seem to find out is, what is the theoretical total storage capacity of my hard drive? That is to say, how much space would there be if I didn't have any software or files on my hard drive at all? I know that they probably told me that when I first bought this particular iMac, but I do not remember now.
The reason why I want to know this, is because I want to find out what per centage of my total hard drive capacity is currently being used! There must be a way -- an easy way -- to find that out. Mustn't there?
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Evelyn Harvey

Select the hard drive's icon on your Desktop. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. In the upper section you will see the information for capacity, available, and used.

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Ive been looking at my hard drive etc and I have about 250gigs of free space left. Which kind of shocked me since I paid for a 320gig hard drive. But of course remember all the junk that needed to be installed/ partitioned etc.. I figured it was just that.
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All in all everything added up to 300gb. So where's the rest of my 20gb????
I checked everywhere from my computer to disk management to device manager, etc.... I finally found somewhere that
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Does anyone know where the 20gb are ? what they're used for? and if you know where its located?
I just want to see that I have a total of 320 and I wasn't jipped or something

thats all normal with all harddrives, difference in the way it gets formatted by the OS. you will never see a full 320gb
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dennis48082 wrote:
so the 1 TB available at my local electronics place will not work?
Is it a 2.5" SATA notebook drive?
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The drie is rated to work on 6GB SATA bus but it certainly can not transfer data that fast. It should be backword compatible to work on slower buses.
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You need to install on your old drive, Update it from the Apple Website then clone it to the new drive. The version of OSX you are using may not function correctly with that large of a drive. Or get yourself a copy of Snow Leopard, retail disk for $29 from Apple, and do all the partitioning and installing with that version od OSX.

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Did you install the quick launch software?
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