Thanks. Makes sense. Now if they ever make a 2ยท5-inch version of this: http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/?gclid=CL3IzfGO4Z8CFcJd4wodDzS5Gw ...
... well, it would go into my MacBook Pro, especially because it would be SATA, not (P)ATA. thanks Bruce On 6 Feb 2010, at 21:25, Peter Kim wrote: > From what I remember of the pismo, the hard drive is almost always the big > bottleneck in performance. While a ram upgrade is the most effective at > increasing speed, if a program requires more ram than available, it needs to > utilize the hd. However, laptop hd technology is more focused on energy > efficiency than speed, especially at that time, so they were not as fast as a > desktop drive, even at higher rpms. Laptop drives are also small, and any > speed increases are negated as they get filled to capacity. One small way > around this was to get a desktop drive and put it in an external drive case, > connect it to the firewire port, and keep the internal drive relatively free. > Though this reduced portability and increased desk clutter, this allowed me > to extend the use of my pismo, until I could afford a TiBook. > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Bruce Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: >> So I thought I'd the '160GB', 5400rpm HD in my Pismo (400MHz, 1GB RAM) >> again... >> >> Whatever, it seems that the faster HD does give a wee speed bump, so I'll >> stick with it unless and until I can ever justify the cost of an SSD. >> >> I'm also intrigued - at what disk access speed does Pismo's bus, processor >> or RAM become the limiting speed factor? Once one of these kicks in, there's >> no point in increasing disk speeds because the other factors are hard-wired, >> as far as I understand it. (Santa didn't give Pismo a processor upgrade this >> year.) >> >> thanks for reading my ramblings >> >> Bruce > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
