More G5 Upgrades

Well I had a successful upgrade for the second time for my PowerMac G5. The first was just a simple optical drive upgrade.

I had been looking at getting a replacement primary drive for awhile. The original drive was a 250GB Maxtor that was starting to slow down, and have errors copying files around. Wiping the drive clean did no good, and Spinrite reported that the drive was slowly failing.

I had always held back due to stories on the net about some model Western Digital drives not being compatible with my Dual G5 2.7 GHz. I ended up ordering a WD3200KS from NewEgg, 320GB, 16 MB Cache, 7200 RPM all the good stuff.

Installation was easy, and the G5 saw the drive without a problem. The drive was very quiet, and was quite speedy compared to the failing Maxtor.

Hardware specs of the system:
Machine Name: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac7,3
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.1)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 2.7 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 1.35 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.4f1

Hardware specs of the drive that was installed:
WDC WD3200KS-00PFB0:
Capacity: 298.09 GB
Model: WDC WD3200KS-00PFB0
Revision: 21.00M21
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Protocol: ata
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Serial-ATA
Bay Name: "A (upper)"
OS9 Drivers: No
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified