![]() The drives are standard laptop-style 2.5” 44-pin IDE drives. ![]() Inez’s upgraded hard drive is “only” 7 years old and looks to be in good shape, but it will fail someday. I checked leo’s original 12-year old hard drive SMART data, and its seek failures were so high, I’m surprised it’s still running. IDE hard drives are not manufactured anymore, and they will eventually fail, being constantly spinning mechanical platters. Leo is a stock 1.2GHz G4 and an 80GB HDD.īut I’ve been thinking about their longevity lately, and not just because Debian and Ubuntu are dropping the 32-bit PowerPC architecture. Inez is the more powerful of the two, with a 1.4GHz G4 and a 320GB 2.5” IDE HDD from an upgrade in 2010. One of the nice things about the G4 Minis is they are very power efficient for the period – about 12 watts at idle – so I treat them as always-on servers. My two G4 Mac Minis ( leo and inez – the home network uses Futurama characters for a naming scheme) were released in 2005, and for the most part, they have been running 24/7 since then, usually for Finnix builds. Instead, I’m giving them solid state drives. I have two PowerPC G4 Mac Minis which have been in service since they were released in 2005. ![]()
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