What kind of harddrives do Macs use? EIDE? SCSI?

[JJWalker]

A friend of mine has a Macintosh and wants to upgrade his harddrive. He's asked me to help him buy one, but I have no idea what they use. And info would be appreciated.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I want to say they use SCSI.

 

[dartworth]

Newer Macs (past 5 years) use IDE HDs.

Use this site for info on every mac.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: jfano
Newer Macs (past 5 years) use IDE HDs.

yup

 

[capricorn]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: jfano
Newer Macs (past 5 years) use IDE HDs.

yup

yup yup.

I hope they (Apple) has gotten past the point of purposely not recognizing disk drives not purchased straight from Apple. They used to do that with their SCSI drives. If it wasn't from Apple, the MacOS system software would not format it. I had to buy a third party tool (FWB hard disk toolkit) in order to format the drive. Someone, please confirm or deny that Apple isn't stilll rectal orifaces about this.

-cap

 

[LethalWolfe]

Any IDE HDD will work. Hell, every now and then I swap interal HDDs between my Mac and PC if one needs more room than the other.


Lethal

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

What Mac is it? You can't really say without knowing that.

capricorn: You can use any drive you want, I don't know how long ago you are talking, but a friend of mine has a beige tower with an Atlas 10k rpm scsi drive in it, and a lite-on burner, works great.

 

[randumb]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: jfano
Newer Macs (past 5 years) use IDE HDs.

yup

Yeah, just take a look at the specs on the Macs. It says they use IDE drives.