'Re: Help with adding a new drive to a Mac'

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List:       computerguys-l
Subject:    Re: Help with adding a new drive to a Mac
From:       Panzer Francis-C21300 <Francis.Panzer () MOTOROLA ! COM>
Date:       2001-12-28 20:15:33
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Personally I'd go with at least an internal ATA drive over a FireWire drive. The reason being that if you have digital video streaming in over FireWire and out to a FireWire drive then you might have glitches because both the video source and drive are sharing the buss. What I use is a wide SCSI drive, which is expensive but very, very fast and unlike an ATA drive your CPU doesn't have to spend time controlling it. I have a Fujitsu server drive with a 10K RPM spindle and an Adaptec Ultra 160 SCSI card. An OS 9 install on a drive like this takes little more than 10 minutes. As for hard drive brands I like IBM and Fujitsu. The Fujitsu drive is so quite I can't hear it operating. I've never had any problems with Quantums either.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: H. Christopher Christner [mailto:cchris@PATTON.COM]
Sent: Thursday, 27. December 2001 2:10 PM
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: [CGUYS] Help with adding a new drive to a Mac

Hi,

I want to upgrade my Mac G4 (40 Gbyte HD, 384 Mb RAM, 500 MHz DP) with more
RAM and a second hard disk drive before movin' up to OS X.  I have about 20
GB of free space on the current drive, I mainly want the second drive for
video editing and storing MP3s. Before I get the drive, I wanted to get some
info first.

I'm planning to install a 60 GB or higher capacity drive (depending on $$,
I'd like to pay $200-250). Would it be more practical to add another
internal ATA drive or should I get an external FireWire drive? If you can,
please recommend a manufacturer and a retailer that has been reliable.

Thanks in advance for any advice,
Chris

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

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