On Dec 8, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote: > PM G4 933 with PCI SATA card. > > My SATA card (Seri-Tek1S2) has internal and external connections. The > internal connection is connected to a 500 GB Seagate drive and seems to be > working great for almost a year now. My first question - Why doesnt the > drive show up in the System Profiler? The card shows up on the "PCI Cards" > but no drive shows up in the "Serial ATA" or anywhere? Can I fix this? > > Second question - I am going to use the external SATA connection to connect > to an external enclosure - strictly for back-up. I am going to use a Seagate > drive because I still have good luck with them. Is it better to use one of > the new "green" Barracuda 5900 rpm drives or the standard 7200 Barracuda > drives (that I have been using for years)? > > Online reviews have not been helpful. >
Well, I read those reviews too but I don't think I saw any Mac folks on them. I've a lot of Seagate HDD's and can't say anything bad, so I just bought 8 Seagate 2TB Green 5900 RPM 64 MB drives for two RAID boxes because Seagate uses them in the NAS and RAID systems they sell, plus a lot cheaper at this time:-) John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 USA MacPro 2.66 Quad Nehalem -- 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
