On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:00 PM, diane wrote:
> > A few weeks ago we talked about larger drives and SATA cards in my G4 > 1.42DP, 2gb ram > > I have a 120gb in there now and was thinking about 2 500's (to mirror > or something). I was going to go to SATA for upwards compatibility. > > The question is, just how much will this slow the machine down? Not having experience with mirroring on a day to day machine (but all my servers have mirrored drives) this is just an fairly educated guess. First of all, a single 500GB (or larger) SATA drive on a sata card is definitely going to be faster and speed up your system compared to the 120GB drive you have now. I have a 120GB on the internal ATA and a 500GB on a SATA card on my DA. The slowdown will come from the mirroring. How much depends on whether you let Mac OS handle it (slower, but cheaper) or buy a SATA card that does hardware mirroring (faster with just a little performance hit, but more expensive). My thought to save marriage points: Put a 500GB (or 750GB) inside on a SATA card and get an external NAS drive as shared storage and for any of your older projects that can be moved to slower storage. Len --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
