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#Apple mac g5 maximum number of hard drives update
#Apple mac g5 maximum number of hard drives upgrade

*Unaltered, current drive – but also used for other previous testing.

Seagate ST33000651AS 3.0TB 7200RPM Barracuda XT 64MB Cache SATA 6Gbp/s*.

The following non-Apple Drives are new units pulled from OWC’s drive inventory: Of further note, the base $1199 iMac model doesn’t have any factory drive configuration options – it is only offered with the 500GB capacity drive. Apple iMac Specs do confirm all factory hard drives are 7200RPM. Note: You don’t get to pick what brand hard drive, cache, model, etc are installed at the factory.

Western Digital WD1001FALS 1TB Caviar Black 7200RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3Gbp/s.

#Apple mac g5 maximum number of hard drives update

The OS installed is 100% up to date as of all updates available today including the recent EFI update whichĮnabled 6.0Gbp/s SATA 3.0 capability with two of the iMac’s three SATA ports.įrom the iMacs, these model drives were found present in the systems we received: Apple’s current latest 2011 iMac models have Apple Model Identifiers of iMac12,1 for the 21.5″ and iMac12,2 for the 27″ regardless of what base model/options selected. This includes one or more of each model processor option and/or video option.

In our lab, we have all the different flavors of iMac 21.5″ and 27″ 2011 models currently shipping.

What is our testing environment/parameters? These are great systems right from the get-go… But pardon us or anyone who wants to make them even better. The vast majority will never even think about after purchase options that Apple does support, such as installing additional memory. Most iMac buyers (and buyers of anything Apple in general) are more than satisfied with how things are right out of the box. We’ve been excitedly covering these new iMacs starting with an unboxing and teardown blog post just hours after they were first introduced. These machines up the game considerably and provide performance that can even match up with the Mac Pro for a lot of applications. I want to be very clear that I think these are absolutely the best iMacs ever. I’d like to personally address some questions, context, and provide additional technical detail concerning this issue.

#Apple mac g5 maximum number of hard drives upgrade

It’s incredible the coverage generated by yesterday’s blog article on the further iMac upgrade restrictions.