I loaded the OS to the SATA drive and ran benchmarking tests. The improvements were minimal. In practice, pure HD moves were much faster, SATA to SATA file moves, but things like video encode, as others taught me, the bottleneck is not the HD, but the bus and/or processor. So, I'm not trying to sell you anything, or putting my preference on to your friend. I believe the 500GB drive can be partitioned to look like 4 125GB drives if the 128GB limit is an issue. Just price them out. Logic tells me if 2X the size is only 30% more, may as well get bigger. Uncompressed video runs 13GB/hr. For example - the shows I am moving from TiVo are 7GB for an hour show in HD. Again, I don't know exactly what she's doing. External FW is not a bad idea.
On Jul 28, 10:18 am, Richard Gerome <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes it has the 128g limit... I would only go the SATA way if this will > make it faster only, she doesn't need more then 128g storage I'm sure, she > was getting by with the original 30g 5400rpm running Jaguar till it wasn't > able to keep up anymore... My personal opinion would be just by putting in a > "PATA 7200rpm and 128g HD max to the limit" should make this computer a lot > faster then it is now and run Tiger pretty good so she can use this for a > couple more yrs... Would the SATA route be faster yet, is the question I have > now??? I know a bigger processor would be a better idea but that probably > means another motherboard, then another computer that some of you are talking > about would be the better way to go I'm sure... I think if I do what I'm > doing to this and down the road she needs more storage she will buy an > external drive then, and by doing this she will always have the external even > if she buys a newer Apple later on... She knows for a fact doing web design > on an Apple is a lot faster then on a PC this is why she wants to do this to > this G4 that she bought brand new... -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
