On Sep 9, 2008, at 2:22 PM, J Winter wrote:
> With that in mind: Instead of what i had planned: internal drive of > under 100 gig, should I be getting some card for PCMIA slot that > would allow me to use a SATA (they're so less expensive) or some > other drive for internal use? For my Toshiba, I use an Express-34 card ... Silicon Image 3132 chip set ... and it is Mac compatible right out of the box. Well, you DO have to download the Mac OS drivers from SiI's web site, but the 3132 chip set is supported by MacOS. The 3132 supports "port multipliers", too, so you can have up to five SATA drives off of each of the two eSATA connections. You can get 3132 cards for desktops, too, but some are RAID-only, and have to be FLASHed to be BASE. For my work, I need lots of storage, particularly external storage. With eSATA being very economical now, and with it being so much faster than USB or Firewire, I see eSATA is the way to go. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
