Replacement hard drive for iMac DV

Daniel

Have you considered an external fire wire drive. A lot less work than
cracking the case.

Joe

Daniel E. Sabath wrote:

>The original 10 gig hard drive of my 1999 iMac DV (G3/400) is full, so I
>was planning to replace it with an 80 gig (or so) drive. According to
>the October 2001 MacWorld, a 7200 rpm drive runs too hot for this
>computer, which lacks a fan, so they recommend a 5400 rpm drive.
>Unfortunately, 7200 rpm drives are the only ones available at retail
>stores, so I'll have to mail order if I want a 5400 rpm drive.
>
>My question is whether this speed consideration is theoretical, or
>whether I should really try to get a 5400 rpm drive.
>
>Thanks in advance for the advice.
>
>Regards,
>
>Dan
>
>
>

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In article <dsabath-E4C7CA.21241601102003@localhost>, "Daniel E. Sabath"
<dsabath.TakeThisOut@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> The original 10 gig hard drive of my 1999 iMac DV (G3/400) is full, so I
> was planning to replace it with an 80 gig (or so) drive. According to
> the October 2001 MacWorld, a 7200 rpm drive runs too hot for this
> computer, which lacks a fan, so they recommend a 5400 rpm drive.
> Unfortunately, 7200 rpm drives are the only ones available at retail
> stores, so I'll have to mail order if I want a 5400 rpm drive.
>
> My question is whether this speed consideration is theoretical, or
> whether I should really try to get a 5400 rpm drive.
>
> Thanks in advance for the advice.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan

I put an 80 gig 7200 HD into a lime iMac about 8 months ago and it made it
through the Chicago summer in a top floor, uncooled apartment.

It sometimes makes a lot more sense though to just run the new drive as an
external firewire drive because then you can move it with you when you
eventually upgrade to a flatscreen iMac.

J

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Daniel E. Sabath <dsabath.DeleteThis@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> The original 10 gig hard drive of my 1999 iMac DV (G3/400) is full, so I
> was planning to replace it with an 80 gig (or so) drive. According to
> the October 2001 MacWorld, a 7200 rpm drive runs too hot for this
> computer, which lacks a fan, so they recommend a 5400 rpm drive.
> Unfortunately, 7200 rpm drives are the only ones available at retail
> stores, so I'll have to mail order if I want a 5400 rpm drive.
>
> My question is whether this speed consideration is theoretical, or
> whether I should really try to get a 5400 rpm drive.

Speed is probably not an issue with this "old" iMac - the older iMacs
only have ATA/66 Buses for the hard drives - which is the primary
bottleneck for the transfer speed...

I have looked up the "official" specs from the Seagate Barracuda
ST340016A I have here in my 233MHz iMac Rev.B (it also has the ATA/66
Bus) - it's supposed to have a "sustained transfer rate" of 24-41
MBytes/s - but when measured with HardDiskToolkit on my Computer it only
has about 12 (minimum read) to 14 (maximum write) MBytes/s.

Much more important to me was the noise the HD makes while spinning.
This is primarily caused by the bearings in the disk - where FDB (fluid)
bearings are a lot quieter than the ball-bearing types.

Torge.

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