what kind of drive upgrade for my iMac 20" fp

[jbleeg]

I have a 20" iMac Flat Panel computer with a 80 gb hard drive. The warranty is just about up and I wish to replace/upgrade the hard drive. I want to find a 300 - 500gb drive on sale. My problem is I don't know much about the different drives. I see SATA, and PATA drives out there, but I don't know which is appropriate for my iMac.. I want this drive swap to be as simple as possible, so I want something that will plug in and hopefully run quiet and maybe have a larger cache, as well as more storage, than I presently have. I've heard good things about Seagate Drives, so I'm leaning that way somewhat.

Can anyone give advise on which specific drive specs to be looking for?

Below I have copied and pasted my present internal drive info that is shown in system Profiler. Hope this helps. I believe it is a Seagate Barracuda


ATA Bus:

ST380011A:

Capacity: 74.53 GB
Model: ST380011A
Revision: 3.06
Serial Number: 3JV71ZQZ
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Protocol: ATA
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
OS9 Drivers: No
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
Macintosh HD:
Capacity: 74.41 GB
Available: 32.17 GB
Writable: Yes

[Buzz]

You need to find any SATA drive.

You'll probably benefit most from a 7200RPM SATA drive.

Don't get a PATA... it won't work. Stick to SATA.

Generally Seagate is the best brand, I've used Western Digital and Maxtor as well for SATA drives and have good experiences with them.


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