[G4] Question about Firewire enclosure / hard drive

[Perry Mitchell]

I remember reading a review between otherwise identical drives that were
PATA and SATA. There was no detectable difference in speed!

Your new drive will be heaps faster than your existing drive simply because
it is newer and things move on!

Incidentally - to get the best price for drives you buy them in a so called
OEM package. This comes with zero support! You don't even get the screws -
not a problem for you folks over the pond but a difficulty here in 'metric'
land! Drives usually come with a sticker on the case telling you how the
jumpers go to give you 'slave' etc. They will also need formatting for the
Mac.

Perry

-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle

Sorry if I didn't explain right... again, the "lingo" is unfamiliar 
to me. I am NOT getting the (faster, better?) SATA internal hard 
drive at this time. In part due to $$ and the need for the additional 
"card" to make it work, etc.

I am getting the other one... I think it is called "PATA"... even 
though it may not be super fast, it will be a huge improvement over 
my puny, tiny 27GB hard drive that I have now, the one that came 
w/the Sawtooth when I bought it, used, years ago.

It's really the additional hard disk space that I need right now, and 
at a bargain-basement price!