[G4] Question about Firewire enclosure / hard drive

[Michelle]

Thank you all for the helpful replies and information. I've done some 
web searching today and just have a couple other (really "newbie!") 
questions. Thank you for your patience... this is new to me. I bought 
my Sawtooth over eBay about 5 years ago and have upgraded the RAM, 
added 2 more USB slots, and upgraded the processor over time... but 
have never messed with the hard drive. (And I do love the 
computer.... I need it to work for awhile longer!)

Am I understanding you correctly that I could feasibly purchase 
something like the:

** 120GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 7200rpm 8.5ms 8MB Cache Ultra ATA/10  **   

from a website like OWC for around $75.

With this "drive", I could either:

A)  install it INTO my Sawtooth in the "second" drive available spot? 
(I didn't know there was such a spot/slot...)

B) replace the current (27GB?) hard drive with this new, bigger drive of 120 GB

C) put this new drive into a firewire enclosure (for about $50 
more?), and use it as an "external" storage/drive


IF I chose to do Option C, why would that (or would that) be faster 
than just buying an external firewire hard drive in the first place?

I am not a technician in ANY way, but I did manage to follow the 
specific directions thus far to upgrade this computer. I primarily 
need the upgrades now to handle my work with Photoshop. Buying a new 
Mac is just not in the budget at this time.

Thank you-
Michelle
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