Apple Computer hard Drives

[Channel Hopper]

Now they are SATA (in this case a G5 on my desk with a dicky drive), would a replacement have to be formatted for Apple stuff as it used to be with IDE drives, or will any old drive do ?

 

[Terryl]

Any drive will work, if it's an SATA drive, or an IDE drive with a SATA adapter, or an external USB drive, but it has to be formatted to Apples HFS+ file system.

So do the formatting on an Apple system or laptop, in most cases the Apple install disk will format the drive for you if your replacing the hard drive and re-installing the OS.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Thanks, I'd forgotten what it was called.