Drives from Western Digital (Black and Blue series) require a jumper on pins 5 and 6 to limit a SATA 6 Gb/s drive to SATA 3 Gb/s to work well in a G5. 3 drives from Hitachi (7K series) typically work as is. 2 drives, but is not so friendly with SATA rev. 1 controller of the G5 works well with SATA rev. One other potential issue to consider is SATA 3 Gb/s (SATA rev. These drives (formatted with GPT) are not bootable in a PPC Mac G3, G4 or G5. Otherwise, for storage only, using Tiger or Leopard, format GPT.

The drive should then have all space available. For use of a 3 TB or 4 TB drive, partition the drive so that no 1 partition is larger than 2 TB. Your G5 will support larger than 500 GB drives 500 GB was the largest offered at the time of sale is all.ġTB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB drives are no problem in the G5, but larger than 2.2 TB breaks a capacity limit for APM ( Apple Partition Map in formatting is required for boot in a PPC Mac). Here is some information i gathered from previous forum on hard drive limitations of the Power Mac G5 I have actually never tried installing anything over 1 Terabyte. I am told hard drives over 2 Gigabytes will not work because of the limitations of the partition map

You can install up to a 2.2 Gigahertz hard drive. They might have a lot of Protools plugins they purchased or invested in other software that works just fine on these I have clients who use the older Powermac G5's because they need to run older software on OSX 10.2, 10.4 or 10.5 operating systems,

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