Re: G3 mini-tower

[Gary Shelton]

Any 7200 RPM drive will give you better performance than the stock hard  
drive, but your overall gains won't be very impressive as long as you  
stick with the stock ATA controller. In order to see really good  
performance, you'll probably have to look into a new ATA controller as  
well. Any controller that supports ATA/100 or ATA/133 should allow you  
to use a new ATA drive to its full performance potential.

If you're looking for the best, money-is-no-object ATA performance, a  
Serial ATA controller, coupled with a SATA hard disk with 8MB of cache  
would probably be your best bet. Western Digital makes a 10000RPM 36GB  
SATA drive, but it's performance doesn't compare with 10000RPM SCSI  
drives, and generally isn't much better than the less expensive 7200RPM  
SATA drive.

On Saturday, Jan 17, 2004, at 13:47 US/Pacific, frank luff wrote:

I hope not to but in but I need advice re scsi and ATA.

I recently bought a biege G3/300 it has an ATA H/drive 3.5 Gig.
T had in my last 7600 a ultra scsi PCI card and 9 Gig drive which I put
in the G3.
I ran a test on the R/write speeds. The scsi was ten times faster!
My question is this What ATA H/D should I buy for greater  
speed/capacity?

 Thanks for any answers and for the thread.
 fluff
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