[G4] New hard drive question

rich northouse rnorthouse at wi.rr.com
Wed Jun 22 05:51:06 PDT 2005


Right!  Newegg.com   Sonnet about $64


rich


On Jun 22, 2005, at 5:44 AM, Peter wrote:

> 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
>
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