Need to replace inter HDD, what to get?

LucaDintino · LucaDintino #1 (**permalink**)

02-26-2011, 05:15 PM

I have a 24" Aluminum iMac (post september '07) and recently my internal HD failed. yay.

now, I need to replace it but I dont know what HD to get.

My current drive is 500GB, has a 32mb cache and transfer rate of 3GB/s

I was looking at a 1TB Caviar Black WD hard drive with 64mb cache and 6GB/s @ 7200 rpm

Will ANY 3.5" drive work??

THANKS

-Luca

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

02-26-2011, 10:35 PM

Not any 3.5" drive, it has to be SATA. The one you mentioned will be fine.

LucaDintino · LucaDintino #3 (**permalink**)

02-27-2011, 12:45 AM

Thank you.

Your reply is greatly appreciated !

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Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 32,017 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	02-26-2011, 10:35 PM Not any 3.5" drive, it has to be SATA. The one you mentioned will be fine. Community Guidelines
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Member Since: Feb 26, 2011 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 7 Mac Specs: (Post 9/07) iMac 24": 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB 667MHz, 500gb WD (failed internal drive) 1TB MyBook	02-26-2011, 05:15 PM I have a 24" Aluminum iMac (post september '07) and recently my internal HD failed. yay. now, I need to replace it but I dont know what HD to get. My current drive is 500GB, has a 32mb cache and transfer rate of 3GB/s I was looking at a 1TB Caviar Black WD hard drive with 64mb cache and 6GB/s @ 7200 rpm Will ANY 3.5" drive work?? THANKS -Luca
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