SSD

[Vic Mabus]

Hello to all!     In trying to rejuvenate a Pismo, I found that all the 2.5" drives in by box are dead, except a 20 Gb that whirs loudly.  Since there are not many of the PATA (IDE/ATA) drives available anymore (and none cheap), I decided to go with this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000T9QRKE/ref=oss_product for just a little more.  I know the write speed is not as good as SLC (for twice the $), but my thinking is that for browser and email it probably won't be any worse that a ten-year-old 4200 RPM drive, and read speeds should be nothing short of awesome. Has anyone on the list tried SSD with a PPC machine?  If so, what steps did you take to reduce the writing?  I think Spotlight can be turned off simply by dragging the drive's icon to the privacy pane.  I found a config setting for Firefox that turns off drive caching: http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-658153.html Move your cache to RAM: (From http://mydellmini.com/forum/windows-7-ultimate-ssd-speed-tweaks-t2540.html): Description: If you use Firefox, there's a way to write cached files to RAM instead of the hard disk. This is not only faster, but will significantly reduce writes to the SSD while using the browser. Instructions: Open Firefox -> Type about:config into the address bar -> Enter -> double-click browser.cache.disk.enable to set the value to False -> Right-Click anywhere -> New -> Integer -> Preference Name "disk.cache.memory.capacity" -> value memory size in KB. Enter 32768 for 32MB, 65536 for 64MB, 131072 for 128MB, etc. -> restart Firefox Any other suggestions? Thanx, V Mabus -- 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 g-books@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to g-books+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books   Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/   To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.