500 MHz G4 with PCI-ATA card for large drives - drives have disappeared

2010-01-22 Thread sharonopolis
I was hoping someone could help me troubleshoot my 500 MHz G4 running OS 10.3 (not sure if it's a Sawtooth, Gigabit Ethernet, or Digital Audio). It normally boots off of a 8 GB HD and has 2 500 GB HDs connected by way of a PCI-slot ATA card. I think the card is the Sonnet Tempo but it might be a

Re: 500 MHz G4 with PCI-ATA card for large drives - drives have disappeared

2010-01-22 Thread Clark Martin
On 1/22/10 11:10 AM, sharonopolis wrote: I was hoping someone could help me troubleshoot my 500 MHz G4 running OS 10.3 (not sure if it's a Sawtooth, Gigabit Ethernet, or Digital Audio). It normally boots off of a 8 GB HD and has 2 500 GB HDs connected by way of a PCI-slot ATA card. I think the

Re: Large Drives

2008-10-12 Thread Jeff Bequette
Average user + family(2teenager with own Itunes iphoto)= 80gb original 65gb used 160gb external 120 used

Large Drives

2008-10-11 Thread Simon Royal
Hi. I've never been a subscriber to massive hard drives. What does the average user do with all that space? Who actually uses 1000GB? Then you have the question of backing up. The larger the storage the larger the back up needed. The largest drive I have had is 160GB which came in my Intel

Re: Large Drives

2008-10-11 Thread PeterH
On Oct 11, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Simon Royal wrote: I've never been a subscriber to massive hard drives. What does the average user do with all that space? Who actually uses 1000GB? Then you have the question of backing up. The larger the storage the larger the back up needed. Try doing

Re: Large Drives

2008-10-11 Thread Diane
On Sat, October 11, 2008 5:39 pm, Simon Royal wrote: Hi. I've never been a subscriber to massive hard drives. What does the average user do with all that space? Who actually uses 1000GB? Then you have the question of backing up. The larger the storage the larger the back up needed. Hi

Re: Large Drives

2008-10-11 Thread Dan
At 10:39 PM +0100 10/11/2008, Simon Royal wrote: What does the average user do with all that space? Data is like GAS. It expands to fill all available space! Who actually uses 1000GB? Then you have the question of backing up. The larger the storage the larger the back up needed. Backup