Seagate 500GB Internal Hard Drive 500 GB ATA IDE +Cable

Will this HD Work on my MacBook (2 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo)?
"Seagate 500GB Internal Hard Drive 500 GB ATA IDE +Cable"

ok I found another on eBay
"Seagate 250Gb Internal IDE Hard Drive 7200RPM"
(INFO) This is a still in the sealed package 250Gb Internal IDE 3.5", 7200RPM Seagate Hard Drive. This is a Seagate "certified repaired" HDD that was shipped to me for a return. It has never been installed nor has it ever been open. The label also indicates it is a Barracuda 7200.8.
Should this one work on my MacBook.
And thanx you for help on my first question.

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Hi, jumpintoliquid -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
ATA hard drives use jumpers to set their address as Master or Slave.
Some drives also come with an additional jumper, which is used as a limiter to set an artifical size for the drive to approx 32GB. This is done because some (older, I think) PC CPUs could not address a volume larger than that.
The solution would be to remove that extra jumper (or reset it according to the jumper config label on the drive). This drawing from Seagate's site may also apply to your drive -
http://www.seagate.com/images/support/en/us/u5family1.gif
Edit - also, be sure the address jumpers are set to Master if it is the only drive on the bus.

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Thank you for the very helpful discussions on adding storage.
I want to add storage to my Mac G4 'silver door' FW 800, running OSX 10.4.11. It has a (very full) 110 GB Toshiba as it's original drive, plus a clunky Maxtor 80 GB external USB drive I've used for backup.
Due to photos and videos, mostly from documenting garden projects and creating documents about them, my drives are filling fast. I want a long term solution - and don't feel like purchasing a new computer any time soon (We're a non-profit, who can afford it these days?)
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I think I prefer using the internal option, since the G4 is set up to expand easily. Comments? An external 500 gb firewire drive isn't that much more expensive (~$40)
If I chose to add an internal drive, one reasonable choice seems to be a 500GB Seagate 7200.9 PATA (that's my interface, not SATA). The price is right. Will it work without problems with my G4 FW800? (The Seagate site and documents say it's Mac compatible, the box doesn't. Most online Mac vendors seem to carry the Seagate 7200.10.)
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If I have to get such a card, would it make more sense to simply get a SATA card? How will that affect cables and ease of installation?
If going above a certain GB size (~137 GB) will give my Mac major heartburn, should I stay under that limit for the internal drive?
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Hi-
Welcome to Discussions!
In a summed up answer to all of your questions; Yes, the Seagate drive will be a wonderful, compatible, fully usable, plug and play in the second drive position, addition to the internals of your tower.
No size limitations, no BIOS worries, no need for a controller card, no new cables......
Install the drive and connect to the end connector of the ATA/100 IDE cable. Make sure both drives are jumpered to Cable Select (link applies to FW800 models). The drive on the end connector will be the boot drive by cable select default. Use Disk Utility to format the new drive in Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and you're ready to use the drive as you see fit.
The easiest transfer of data, OS , applications, etc., will be to use a cloning utility such as SuperDuper! or CCC. Clone the old drive to the new drive, and you will have your previous system as is, only all on the new drive. Check the operation/integrity of all applications/data, and when satisfied, the old drive may be erased to be relegated to different use.

New Seagate 500GB 7200RPM Hard Drive Question

Hi Everyone,
I bought a new i5 15.4" Macbook Pro on the first day they were available and yesterday I upgraded the hard drive from the stock 320 GB 5400RPM Drive. My question is that with the stock drive I was able to hear the heads park on the drive if the macbook was ever moved suddenly or fast. Since putting the new drive in yesterday and doing a clean install on the drive. Although it is super silent and I don't feel a lot of vibration on that side of the macbook, I never hear the heads park. I also don't or haven't heard any clicks that other users have been experiencing with this drive, or at least not yet anyways.
Is there a way to test to make sure that they are in fact parking?. The Sudden Motion Sensor is enabled in the system profiler. What else can I check out?
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This model doesn't included g-force. As I was told to get the one without it.
I just want to make sure the drive is functioning properly as it should...
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Thanx
Greg

gorylewis wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I bought a new i5 15.4" Macbook Pro on the first day they were available and yesterday I upgraded the hard drive from the stock 320 GB 5400RPM Drive. My question is that with the stock drive I was able to hear the heads park on the drive if the macbook was ever moved suddenly or fast. Since putting the new drive in yesterday and doing a clean install on the drive. Although it is super silent and I don't feel a lot of vibration on that side of the macbook, I never hear the heads park. I also don't or haven't heard any clicks that other users have been experiencing with this drive, or at least not yet anyways.
Is there a way to test to make sure that they are in fact parking?. The Sudden Motion Sensor is enabled in the system profiler. What else can I check out?
The exact model of hard drive I installed was: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB Model:ST9500420AS
This model doesn't included g-force. As I was told to get the one without it.
I just want to make sure the drive is functioning properly as it should...
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated
Thanx
Greg
Wouldn't it be easier to go the Apple Logo on the upper left corner and check about this Mac and click more info. There you will hopefully see:
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
I did a swap too. Removed the stock 500 GB 5400 RPM and installed a 500 MB 7200 RPM. Sensor Enabled.
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I have one Western Digital and 3 Seagate drives in the case of my G4 Quicksilver, all very quiet, at least I think they are. Could be the fan of my ATI card drowns them all out!
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Hello all,
I recently bought a Seagate 250GB internal hard drive for my Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics). I intend to install it alongside my old 20GB drive. I have a couple of questions about installing it:
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• I'm considering partitioning the drive and installing Debian Linux on one partition. Is it possible that Debian won't recognize the PCI card?
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Power Mac G4 - AGP graphics Mac OS X (10.4.3) 768 MB RAM

• What kind of PCI card do I need in order to use the
full capacity of the drive?
If the drive is an SATA drive you need an SATA controller. If an IDE/ATA drive you need an IDE controller.
• I'm considering partitioning the drive and
installing Debian Linux on one partition. Is it
possible that Debian won't recognize the PCI card?
You should check the Hardware Compatibility List for Debian against your potential mac compatible purchases. You might also get some good information from Yellow Dog Linux compatibility lists.
• Is it possible to connect (RAID?) the old and new
drives together so that they appear as one big 270GB
drive? Is this a good idea?
If you want to stripe the 2 dives together your overall performance will be slowed down by the slower of the two drives. For example, If you have one 5400rpm drive and another 7200rpm drive, the RAID will be bogged down by the slower drive so you wont get the full benefit of the lower latencies of the 7200. You will still get some of the faster transfer times, just not the lower latencies.
Wether or not it's a good idea depends on your personal needs. Do you need a drive that can can move very large files to and from memory quickly (bandwidth) or a drive that can locate and serve up the files quickly (latency)?
• What is the easiest way to copy the contents of my
old drive onto the new one? I'd like an exact copy
so that I don't have to reinstall the system and
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Steve

okstevep wrote:
Hi
I recently bought a new 500GB internal hard drive, on which I have copied (not migrated) my files and applications to. I have used Time Machine on the old 120GB drive with a 1TB external hard drive. I have this drive partitioned such that only 320GB was dedicated to Time Machine and because I spent the last 6 months downloading files (mainly itunes music) onto my old internal drive, and copying it onto another part of the partition on the 1TB external, then updating Time Machine
Do you mean you copied files into the TM partition, or a different partition on the same disk as your TM backups?
I mean I copied the files from my old internal drive onto my new drive - I haven't done anything with Time Machine yet.
I only have 135GB left in the Time Machine part of the partition.
How much of the 320 gb is used by TM backups and how much by the other files?
As far as I know all of the used space is TM backups, so 185 GB
Will a new back-up add all the files I have copied for a second time (they are now on different locations on the hard disk)?
Yes.
Can I copy the folders of Time Machine back ups to another partition to free up space in order to use Time Machine from scratch with the new internal drive?
As khassani noted, you can't just copy them. SuperDuper! will do it, but so will the Restore tab of Disk Utility. But you must copy an entire partition to another entire partition, and select Erase Destination.
Roughly how much data have you put on the new drive?
How old is the oldest backup in TM?
I have put 140 GB on the new drive so far (60GB from the old drive, 45GB with files for Logic Studio, which I would be happy not to back up, and the rest with system files, library files, other new files and applications)
The oldest back up is October '08. I have been backing up manually about once a week if that makes a difference.
You may be able to let TM back-up the new drive, then manually delete the old backups of the items you moved, via the TM interface. See item 12 of the Frequently Asked Questions post at the top of this forum.
Thanks very much for all of your help. Please let me know if you can offer further advice based on my extra information here.

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http://www.bluescale.co.uk/products/500Gb-2.5%22-Hard-Disk-Drive-Apple-Mac-Book% 7B47%7DPro%7B47%7DMini-.html
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