*Scratches head* How big of a hard drive is needed, and what system are you running on it? I'm pushing for the SSD route (SSD or CF with IDE Adapter) because that will make the system faster and be cheaper up to a certain size. But the entire 68K Library is only so big (10BG or so) and you are stuck with either 68K or PPC/68K Fat software. I can not see one using over 32GB on a machine like this unless one is doing massive work on it! Plus in using FAT Software, you can use a PPC-Fat Striper to make the programs smaller for THAT Machine!

I use both 68K and PPC and use the Fat striper on the 68K Machines, making programs fit that did not it before. If the System is Fat (PPC and 68K) you can cut it in half by stripping the PPC code from it. Photoshop 4.0 is something over 8megs and its PPC/68K Fat, stripping that cuts it to under 5megs! So things that could not fit into 16megs of RAM now can. I'm just saying.

And some SSDs/CF-SSDs will not work on a Mac. A couple of members fell into that trap, but at the same time, a few hard drives will not work either and it looks like you fell into that trap too. Get a small hard drive and test it to see if it works first, then upgrade to a larger size - again testing to see if it works too. This also applies to a SSD/CF-SSD. For me on a 68K/PPC machine, the biggest SSD I have in it (WallStreet G3) is 8GB and the average is 4GB. OSX machines I have start out with 16GB as a minimum.