Also, there is the cost thing. Unless you think that you might re-use the SSD in a future machine, go for the smallest SSD you can get away with and buy the biggest USB memory device you can find at a reasonable price. I would imagine that internet speed is going to be the performance bottleneck rather than access times. Also, it is worth pointing out that SSDs are not totally bulletproof. Most operating systems treat them as HDs when they are nothing of the sort. You need to ensure that the SSD is regularly backed up if you are doing anything mission critical. The reliability of SSDs over a long period of time has not been proven. I suppose there is probably room even in a G4 iMac for a SSD RAID solution but, ahem, even then, I'd want good backup.
On Apr 17, 3:39 pm, "SteveC" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have the original 10gb HD in my iMac G3 DV. I have a FireWire 250gb > external drive that I boot from, and have a boot-time script that ejects the > internal drive. It makes the machine whisper quiet because the external HD > is silent and the internal one ceases to function. > > At first I considered getting a 32gb solid state drive for the silence, but > after reading the disassembly docs, I nixed that idea. The 250gb external is > larger and cheaper than the 32gb drive. Reading the disassembly docs to get > the drive in (and out n years from now) also looked like more than I wanted > to deal with. > > HTH. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > > Of Flemming Wyrtz > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Solid state Harddisk on an iMac G4 > > Thank you Bruce > > I have had disassembled so I know the pain inside. > > I actually have the computer in my office in Denmark and I do most of > my work in South America so I am away for a pretty long time and > threfore the point is to make the configuration rockstable. > > Thats the reason to even begin thinking on a ssd drive. > > I will give it a try. > > When I have done it I will post a comment. > > Bye bye > > Flemming > > On 16 Apr 2009, at 15:13, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:43 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > >> I have a perfectly working iMac G4 from 2002 with 2 G memory and now > >> running Leopard, that I want to use as a server for a databasefile, > >> that I will call home to from time to time when I or my personal > >> wants > >> to update company things. I want to use the iMac because I think it > >> is > >> still the most beautifull computer ever made and I have it as an icon > >> and a working machine!. > > >> But to use it as a server with the harddisk waking up every 5 minutes > >> does not please me. So here is the question. > > >> Does anyone know if I can possibly change the existing harddisk and > >> replace it with a solid state drive. In case yes this machine will > >> still have to work for me and will not retire. > > > You can certainly do that, since it takes just a standard IDE drive. > > All you need to do is get the right configuration of SSD drive. > > > That said, the G4 iMacs are a MONSTER pain in the butt to work on. > > > You can also use it as is, just turn off HDD sleep. If you're using it > > as a server, in this fashion, set the display to sleep in a relatively > > short period of time, but set the computer and hard drives to never > > sleep. > > > -- > > Bruce Johnson > > University of Arizona > > College of Pharmacy > > Information Technology Group > > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
