[G4] Advice please

[Philip J Robar]

On May 18, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Tony Gamble wrote:

> As for the drive interface, yes, your machine is equipped with ATA/ 
> 66, but you'd be much better off connecting the new drive to that  
> 133 combo card with an 80-wire cable.

This is not correct. The difference in performance between ATA/66 and  
ATA/133 is quite small, even for hard drives. Also ATA/66 (and ATA/ 
33) requires 80 wire cables and Macs have shipped with such cables  
since at least the B&W models. As I've stated in the past the biggest  
performance gap is between ATA/33 and newer interfaces.


Phil
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