[G4] New hard drive question

[Al Poulin]

On Jun 21, 2005, at 3:58 PM, F Pike wrote:

> I am looking to buy a new HD.
> I have a G4 MDD model single 1.25 ghz. Running OS
> 10.3.9
>
> I would like to add a 200 gig HD in addition to the
> stock 80 that came with the system.
>
> I have a large project to convert all of our VHS home
> movies to DVD.
>
> Should I hook the new HD up to the ATA100 bus or
> should I use the ATA66 bus. I have read that it is
> better to not have two drives on the same bus.

I'm sure that it is better to have two drives on the ATA 100 bus than 
to put the second drive on the ATA 66 bus.  But I'll let the techs here 
say why.

Consider a Seagate Barracuda.

Another alternative to consider is an external Firewire drive.   In 
either case, a question is whether your MDD will see all 200 GB without 
a new PCI controller card.

Al Poulin
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