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I see that the new powermac G5 dual dual-cores are out, and are looking very nice, but i think the biggest hard-drive they can read is 500Gb per drive...why do apple keep limiting this. why is there a limit ?
 
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why would you need that much space
 
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Do they even make HDs bigger than 500GB?


edit: the largest drive newegg.com sells is 500GB
 
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you can have 2 500Gb drives isnt 1TB enough or what :|
 
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robbiemullen said:
I see that the new powermac G5 dual dual-cores are out, and are looking very nice, but i think the biggest hard-drive they can read is 500Gb per drive...why do apple keep limiting this. why is there a limit ?

Why do you assume it is a limit that Apple have any control over? Have you seen any other manufacturer offering greater sizes?

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The largest available hard drives are 500GB. That limit isn't being set by apple. The only HD limit being set is the 2 drive limit because of their chassis design.
 
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1 TB is deffinatly enough, even with all the editing i do, although i do plan on having 1.5 TB with the 1TB in the computer itself and a external 500gb drive that I already use.
 
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I know that is alot, and at the moment i dont think you can buy an internal HD bigger than 500Gb, but it wont be long until you can,i am just saying for future up-grading purposes. my friend has a G3 yoshmite w/ panther, he bought a 200Gb HD for it and it is only reading around 120Gb out of the 200Gb, and yes we tryed partitioning the drive, but is still the same. i know he could buy a ide pci controller and that mite give him the extra space...If its not apple limiting the HD space...who is it then ?
 
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my god how old is the G3!! atleat years old or more?

IMO thats not bad for a mac of that age as it prob came with only something like a 6Gb drive.

the hardware is the limiting factor as no one, not just apple could predict that 100Gb+ would have been possible so quickly
 
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robbiemullen said:
I know that is alot, and at the moment i dont think you can buy an internal HD bigger than 500Gb, but it wont be long until you can,i am just saying for future up-grading purposes. my friend has a G3 yoshmite w/ panther, he bought a 200Gb HD for it and it is only reading around 120Gb out of the 200Gb, and yes we tryed partitioning the drive, but is still the same. i know he could buy a ide pci controller and that mite give him the extra space...If its not apple limiting the HD space...who is it then ?

pcs had that same problem. something to do with the ide controller not good enough. I doubt apple is limiting the current powermacs to 500GB per disk. They just don't sell any larger right now. When they do have bigger, the limit will probably be nullified.
 

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robbiemullen said:
I know that is alot, and at the moment i dont think you can buy an internal HD bigger than 500Gb, but it wont be long until you can,i am just saying for future up-grading purposes. my friend has a G3 yoshmite w/ panther, he bought a 200Gb HD for it and it is only reading around 120Gb out of the 200Gb, and yes we tryed partitioning the drive, but is still the same. i know he could buy a ide pci controller and that mite give him the extra space...If its not apple limiting the HD space...who is it then ?

Not being mean or trying to argue with you. I can show you many Intel Boards with PII300's that will not read anymore than 128GB either, and some even less. Older computers had limits on drive sizes. Apple with the G5 is not limiting anything that I know of. Right now it's the limit of what is being produced. There have in the past always been limits. There was a 6GB limit at one point also. That G3 B&W is a older machine. The very early G4's had that limit but the later ones do not.
 

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