At 1:59 PM -0400 9/22/2008, diane wrote: >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?
Why would going to a faster disk interface slow the machine down? [*] You'd be going from an ATA interface, that plods along, to a warp-speed SATA. Unless you buy a crippled dirt cheap SATA drive with half its legs in casts, it's i/o bandwidth is going to run circles around your old ATA interface. >My husband is trying to convince me to go to a shared NAS for the >two of us. Not that I disagree in general especially with backups, >but I do kinda like having the stuff I use a lot on my internal >drive. Networked storage is nice, and has its uses, but it can be awfully slow. What speed is your LAN? 100 Mb? 1 Gb? 10 Gb? Or is it mostly wi-fi -- 25 Mb, maybe 40 Mb (11g on a good day), or maybe 60 Mb (11n on a great day)? Compare that to your internal SATA I (1.5 Gbps) or SATA III (3 Gbps). Here at me casa, we have a small file server. My housemates tend to go wired to talk to it because wi-fi is just too pokey. And even then, they only put things they want to share with each other there, or some backups. [*] Data is like gas - it expands to fill all available space. When I have space available, I just can't resist going nutz downloading extra movies and podcasts. All those downloads at once definitely slows down my machine! Then of course you can hear the disk grumbling from the weight of all those bits! HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
