You may find the controllers and drives if you join the Low End Macs Swap list.
Good luck Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer https://www.youtube.com/user/fluxstringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 6:51 PM, William Tomcanin <wt8091...@gmail.com> wrote: > I currently use the G4 to run legacy S/W -- I guess it's more of a hobby > machine and not my primary H/W. > > I do have a lot of audio and photo files on it, as well as some legacy PPC > S/W that I do not want to loose. > > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 4:10 PM, W.Adrian D'Alessio < > fluxstrin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is this a hobby computer or a machine that has been a DAW or other >> workstation? >> That would mean a great difference. >> Or is it the only dire option between you and being cut off from the >> world. Or perhaps a trusted and faithful companion you cannot part with? >> >> Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer >> fluxstrin...@gmail.com >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ >> http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer >> https://www.youtube.com/user/fluxstringer >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 3:34 PM, James Knight <dr.james.kni...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Personally I would get a sata to ide adapter and get any modern small >>> reputable ssd. Clone it with ccc or similar. >>> >>> You won't have trim but with garbage collection on the drive and the >>> bottleneck of the ide bus it should still be way faster and outlast the >>> rest of the G4. >>> >>> Last time i researched this all the actual IDE ssd drives had crappy >>> controllers. >>> -James >>> >>> Sent from my mobile device. >>> >>> On Jan 29, 2017, at 15:09, William Tomcanin <wt8091...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I'm sure that this question has been asked before, but I would >>> appreciate receiving any information regarding replacement / upgrades for >>> my "old" (original) hard drive. >>> >>> I'm concerned that it has been with me for over 15 years. 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