Conversely, the PowerCenter 132 mentioned in another response had a SCSI hard drive and SCSI CD-ROM, with no IDE on the motherboard.
http://www.lowendmac.com/power/base.shtml
On both of these machines, you will significantly increase hard drive performance and capacity if you add a PCI ATA card (http://www.macsales.com). On the PowerBase, you can use a low capacity IDE drive but I strongly recommend that if you want the machine to be a "keeper" that you add an ATA card (you can hook up 4 drives) to use the cheaper and higher capacity drives out there.
James
My neighbor just gave me a PB180 "upgraded" to a G3/233 with a 2GB drive. I'm thinking of increasing the drive size and using it a s a back up server and to stream my MP3s at home.
The drive that is in there now is definitely a SCSI drive, but I have read in several places that the PB180 supports IDE drives as well.
A few questions about this:
1) Is this true? 2) If this is true, where can I locate the ide/ata connector (I looked and
couldn't see one -- but then again, I don't have any idea what one looks
like)
3) Am I restricted to certain types of ide drive types?
4) What else should I know about this?
Sorry if these are truly novice questions, but I'm very inexperienced when it comes to this stuff.
Thanks for your help in advance,
Spencer
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