[G4] motherboard vs. pci drive controller

[John Niven]

If you use it with a ATA 133 hard drive, then it will
be twice as fast as the built in one.

If you are just going to use it with the standard hd
then I don't think you will see any improvement.

John

--- Devon Ravine <devonr at nwfdailynews.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a Sonnet Tempo ATA 133 pci hard drive
> controller card that I was
> considering installing in my G4 (AGP) 400 mh.
> machine. I'm not all that
> concerned about large drive support or putting more
> than 2 drive in the
> G4. But I was wondering if anyone on the list could
> tell me if there are
> performance benefits (read/write speed, etc) to
> using a pci hard drive
> controller vs. the on-board controller.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Devon
> 
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