Quicksilver  G4  800 Hard Drive

Hard Drive went, can I replace the old 30 gb with a 160 Gb seagate or do I have to stay below 120 gb also do I have to format a Seagate ? Thanks

Hi, jamman66, and welcome to the Discussions!
Yes. Any QS Mac with BootROM version 4.3.3f2 (indicated in the Hardware Overview section of the System Profiler) and is running OS X 10.2 or later, has built-in support for large drives.
I'm currently running a 300GB Seagate as master, with a 160GB Seagate slave for a startup drive. I frequently swap drives around without incident, using a number of various drive brands, most being over 120GB. All major brands (Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital, and Hitachi) work well, from my personal experience. Samsung should be all right, too, though I've never owned one.
I usually buy drives based on the best "deal" available at the time, looking at cost per GB for a given cache size. If you're looking for a 250GB or larger drive, you might opt for one with a 16MB cache, versus an 8MB cache, since a larger cache generally means "faster" performance from the drive. For a drive smaller than 250GB, a drive with an 8MB cache should outperform one with a 2MB cache.
I'd recommend swapping one of the 80GB drives with whichever large drive you purchase. Some folks install a third drive on the slower ATA 3 optical drive bus, but I don't recommend it. If you need more drives, IMO it's best to add an ATA-133 PCI card and have the ability to run two more internal hard drives, or purchase a SATA card and get new SATA drives instead of new ATA drives, taking advantage of the significant speed increase inherent in SATA.
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