[G4] New hard drive question

Peter yellowdogemail-discard at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jun 22 03:44:20 PDT 2005


At 06:27 -0400 22/6/05, Tim Collier wrote:
>Just thought I'd throw this out.  I bought an SATA drive controller 
>that supports 2  drives.  On my wife's dual 1 gig G4 is where I 
>installed it.  I hooked up a 160 gig SATA drive to it from my iMac 
>which I upgraded to a 250 gig.
>It really seems to speed things up.  It can support very large 
>drives also.  So, if you're needing a lot of storage space and want 
>quick access and don't want to have a string of external firewire 
>drives, it might be worth considering.

Can you point me in the direction of a "SATA drive controller"? Is 
this the same as a SATA PCI card?
-- 
Peter

The box said "Windows '98 or better", so I bought a macintosh.


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