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Apple Training Series: Desktop and Portable Systems, Second Edition
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Apple Training Series: Desktop and Portable Systems, Second Edition

by Peachpit Press
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
13h 12m
English
Peachpit Press
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Installing a Hard Drive

The Power Mac G5 has three internal drive bays: one optical drive bay and two hard drive bays. In most configurations, a single hard drive occupies the top hard drive bay and an optical drive is located in the front optical drive bay.

You can add a Serial ATA disk drive to the empty slot in the hard drive bay. The drives must meet these specifications:

  • Type: Serial ATA

  • Form Factor (disk size): 3.5 inch

  • Width: 3.9 inches (102 mm)

  • Depth: 5.7 inches (147 mm)

  • Height: 1.0 inch

NOTE

Use the original Apple cables that came with the Macintosh when you install ATA or optical drives.

The following installation process is extremely simple. It assumes you have already removed the Power Mac G5 computer's access panel and grounded ...

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