On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:00 AM, diane wrote: > 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?
I've put four 500 GB drives in such a machine, with two of these on the optical bus. The machine doesn't appreciate not having an optical drive, although there are some circumventions. Two or three very large drives (750 GB is the largest PATA drive presently being made) is perfectly fine, and will cause no problems. In my applications, the very large drive which is on the optical bus, in place of the Zip drive, us used for backups of works in progress. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
