Replace G-drive? largest and specs?

[pwygant]

Greetings,

I have an older G-drive with USB 2.0 and Firewire 400. This particular unit came with a 320Gb hard drive. Forgive me if this can't be asked in this particular forum but what particular specs if any do I need to replace this drive with? What is the largest drive I can put in here that the hardware can support? I was thinking about picking up a 1TB Hitachi 7200 SATA drive.

//Thanks

[Gene G]

Hi,

Thanks for your post. If your drive has a SATA connection inside, then it should work fine with a 1TB drive. If it is an ATA drive, then you will be limited by drive availability. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

[Williemyers123]

Gene, i've got a similiar question, except that I am trying to replace the drive in my ols G-Drive Q 160 with a 2 TB WD Caviar Green (SATA II). The physical changeover went smooth enough, but it will not mount via FW800 on my MacPro's desktop. Any thoughts?
many thanks

[Williemyers123]

hey Gene, please disregard prior post! turned out to be a dodgy FW800 cable and with the new cable in place, it's mounting just fine!

[Williemyers123]

o.k., Gene....please disregard THAT prior post!
It's not mounting...or at least, consistently
The drive that I put in to my G-Drive Q160 enclosure is a WD Caviar Green 2 TB SATA II (3.0Gb/sec).
I'm using a Mac Pro 8-core running OS 10.6.8.
Sometimes it will show up when I'm using the FW connectors, sometimes when I use the USB connector, most times, it won't show up at all and at those times, Disk Utility and System Perfs cannot "see" the drive at all.
Any thoughts?

[Gene G]

Hi Willie,

Thanks for your posts. It sounds like it may be the controller board in your unit. Could you please contact me at eugene.gilbert@hgst with your drive's serial number S/N, as well as a picture of the controller board inside the unit. I'll take a look at those and contact you back directly.

Regards,