Depending on how many hard drives you have in it already, you can at least two
EIDE hard drives internally fairly easily. One would go on top of the existing
hard drive, and one would go towards the front of the case. The power and other
cables for the two new hard drives already exist in the case. If you wanted to,
you could replace the optical drive with another hard drive and the Zip drive
with another hard drive, albeit a 2.5" hard drive due to the smaller space.
Instructional videos are available at Other World Computing. Keep in mind that
without installing a new hard drive controller card in a PCI slot, the maximum
size of the hard drives would be 128 GB. I have a 20 GB hard drive in my 450,
and a 160 GB external hard drive connected to the 450 via Firewire. Once I get
two internal hard drives for the 450, I will disconnect the 160 GB hard drive
and move it to another computer.
--- On Thu, 1/15/09, Charles Davis <c...@gamewood.net> wrote:
From: Charles Davis <c...@gamewood.net>
Subject: Re: Need advice on hard disk space on G4
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 4:57 PM
On Jan 15, 2009, at 2:13 PM, icansw...@aol.com wrote:
> I just upgraded my G4 450mhz to Tiger. Now I'm running out of hard
> disk space.....I only have 3GB left. I'm a Graphic Designer with
> Adobe programs. Any suggestions on how to get more disk space?
> Maybe internal or external drive or some other type of storage?
>
> Thanks in advance
> paula
>
Ouch ----
Immediately if not sooner, look over the contents of 'Trash', remove
the 'goodies' that you really don't want to disappear, and
"Empty
Trash".
Hopefully you still have enough 'headroom' for the 'Empty
Trash'
program to run successfully.
That should retrieve a significant bit of space, enough to give you
time to cure your HD deficit.
If 'Empty Trash' won't run, STOP trying to run that system till you
get an External Firewire drive that you can boot from.
HTH, Chuck D.
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