On Aug 18, 2004, at 6:13 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Aug 18, 2004, at 4:13 PM, Tom Baker wrote:
Man, this video editing eats up the hard drive space! I need a couple more big (and fast) drives! Heck, Apple even recommends that there be at least 20 gigs of EMPTY space on any drive that contains iDVD or an iDVD project!
Yeah, Video just slorps up the gigabytes like crazy.
For three years now I've had these two little 18-gig SCSI drives running on the bottom shelf inside my G-4 733 (this kind of G-4: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/ powermac_g4_733.html), connected to a SCSI card in a PCI slot. What if I pulled those drives out and replaced them with two big 250-gig serial ATA drives (this kind: http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=6244&Item=HIT13G0255) connected to a serial ATA controller card in another PCI slot (this one: http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Page.cfm? Parent=950&Title=Serial_ATA&Template=1).
Anybody see any reason why those drives wouldn't work in there with that card, or with this kind of a G-4 Mac? Do you think such large and fast hard drives would run too hot inside the case?
Those ought to work fine, in fact they'll probably run cooler than the SCSI ones, if they're Seagates (little drive bay ovens, they are. )
That said, you can probably get the non-SATA drives cheaper, and since afaik *all* SATA drives are still just adapted ATA drives, you're not losing out on space.
-- Bruce Johnson
Thanks Bruce! Glad to hear that these drives and the card will work. Yes, the non-SATA versions are a little bit cheaper, but the sales blurb says that SATA hard drives can transfer data faster than the older ATA types, and from what little experience I have with iMovie and iDVD so far, it appears that every bit of speed helps when editing video (burning a video DVD literally takes HOURS, even with a G5 and twin processors). Of course, maybe the processor in the G4-733 can't even keep up with the slower drives, for all I know--I was just going on the notion that with video the faster EVERYTHING operates the better. Besides, if I ever move up to a G5 tower, these newer SATA drives will pop right into it and run natively, and even when I install them in my old G4 they will eliminate any confusion about jumper settings, since SATAs apparently have no jumpers to set!
I appreciate the help!
Tom
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