[G4] Hardware review site?

[Richard Klein]

J.M.P.Hissel wrote:
> 
> A few months ago I bought a 3-port USB2/PCI card for my IBM NetVista P3/667.
> It has no known brand and a price of Euro 9 (= US$ 12). It came with a
> "For-Win-Only"-CD. Being curious, I put the card in my QS/800/2002, 10.4.9
> and all works flawlessly. Just install the card, start up and run. Nothing
> needed. Card is still in the QS. I bought another one for the NetVista.

It sounds like I should just get the cheapest card that says it supports 
OSX.

John Niven wrote:
 > Richard,
 >
 > I just bought one of these:
 >
 > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817716028
 >
 > Galaxy METAL GEAR 3500MGB-RAID/BLK Aluminum 2 x 3.5"
 > USB 2.0 & 1394 External Enclosure
 >
 > It takes up to two SATA drives and will either make
 > them separately available or will RAID0 stripe them
 > together.
 >
 > The thing I liked about this box is it has a fan and
 > good airflow over the drives. Also if you remove the
 > volume from the desktop, the drives are spun down.
 >
 > I am using it with a G4 AGP via a Adaptec FireConnect
 > 8300A PCI-X card which gives 2 FW800 and a FW400. This
 > is a great card for G4's because it is 64bit and
 > therefore at 33MHz offers the same throughput as a
 > more modern 32bit 66MHz bus!

That sounds good!

 > I don't know what you need USB 2.0 for.

USB 2.0 for a memory card reader and my iPaq.

Rick Smykla wrote:
 > Rich,
 >
 > The Accelerate Your Mac website has an excellent database of hardware
 > options for Macs, with user reviews and comments. Check here for the
 > drive compatibility part of the site:
 > <http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/search.drivedb.lasso>
 >
 > Highly recommended.

Good call, Rick!  I'll take a look there.

-- 
Thanks everyone!
Rich