{"id":154,"date":"2006-06-15T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=154"},"modified":"2025-01-15T01:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T01:01:07","slug":"how-to-install-a-new-hard-drive-in-a-powermac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"How to install a new hard drive in a PowerMac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Power down; remove power cord<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lift case open lever on back panel; remove side panel and plastic insert<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Insert drive in bay; flip lever to hold in place<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Attach the SATA cables that are already conveniently placed next to where they should mount on drive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Replace insert and side panel (and push down case open lever)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Replace power cord; power up<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When mac asks you if you want to initialize the drive, say yes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When Disk Utility opens, select drive; click on partition tab; click on partition button<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a separate note, the current sweet spot for HDs is 250Gig, 16Meg ram cache, 7200rpm for $100.00. Unbelievable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s it. On a separate note, the current sweet spot for HDs is 250Gig, 16Meg ram cache, 7200rpm for $100.00. Unbelievable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}