On 2/9/10 12:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On Feb 9, 1:59 pm, "Gorka L Martinez Mezo"<[email protected]> wrote:
BTW, I found it SLOOOOOW. It`s running Mac OS 9,1 and has one 40Mb IBM
DeathStar HD built in 2001 replacing the original 4Mb unit supplied with the
machine.
The built-in IDE on the Beige is only 16 MB/s. It just begs for an
ATA-133 PCI card, although cable routing is a pain.
When shipped the slow IDE was not a problem because the hard drives
they shipped wtih were even slower (in terms of real world data-to-
platters data rate).
But consider the cost of a PCI IDE card. It'll likely be more cost
effective to move up to a newer model that has a faster IDE bus built
in. I just bought a MDD on e-bay for $100, that's not much more than an
IDE card.
That's if you can find an IDE card. I just did a real quick search and
the only I found was a combo PATA/SATA (for $90).
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