On Apr 8, 10:27 pm, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> PCI-ATA cards have been and are pricey $60-100 and more for cards with > greater functionality. The Acard 6280M is available on Ebay for $30 with free shipping. The Acard 6880M is $40. (No knowledge of, nor relationship with the sellers.) Both of those provide bootable drives in OS 7.6.x up through at least 10.4.x. I'm not sure about the 10.5 support. The nice thing about the 6880M (not the 6280M) is that a RAID created on that card is available both when one boots in Classic and when one is booted from X. If you use OSX's RAID facilities the RAID volumes are only available in X. >It's cheaper to go SATA. In the long run, this is definitely true. PATA drives are end-of- life and the capacity never went past 750GB. With 2 TB SATA drives regularly hitting $80 and below, it's hard to beat SATA. > Mac Sales > PCI-IDE card, $80 > PCI-SATA card, $74 > IDE 160Gb, $58 > SATA 160Gb, $48 Note that Newegg has recertified Seagate and Western Digital 80 GB PATA drives for about $30 after shipping. That knocks the price way down and won't need a card to access the whole capacity. Of course, if you need more capacity, it's no good, but if one simply needs a working PATA drive replacement at the lowest price possible, it is probably a good way to go. Jeff Walther -- 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
