[G4] Upgrade to USB 2.0

[John Baltutis]

On 08/17/07, Jake Holt Photography <jake at jakeholt.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks - I never thought of just spinning down the drives - I'll give
> it a shot.
>
> On Aug 17, 2007, at 5:39 PM, B G wrote:
>
>> I had the sleep issue with my USB 2.0 firewire combo PCI card.
>>
>> All you need to do is set the preferences to never sleep.
>> then set the display to dim and the hard drives to spin down at
>> whateveime interval you like.

I never sleep desktop computers or their HDs, just the display. IMHO, you gain
little doing that. Also, the consensus at most lists and Apple Discussions is
to avoid USB 1 or 2 for anything except keyboards, mice, and printers. Use
FireWire for everything else.