[G4] USB2 HD

[John Niven]

I'm a little nuts so this advice may not work for you.

As it happened I had two 36Gb WD Raptor SATA drives
spare. These are 10krpm very fast. I needed an
external backup drive so I bought a Galaxy Metal gear
box from Newegg. This houses two sata drives and can
do a raid 0 stripe. It is a FW800 interface but also
has FW400.

I also bought an ADAPTEC FireConnect 8300 FW800 card
for my G4. I like this card, it is a 64bit pci card so
makes the most of the the older 33MHz pci busses.

I use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy my system drive onto
this external box. I can then boot from the box and
it's REALLY fast. You can't really tell the
difference.

Anyway, it's alot of money but can easily be used with
future upgrades. Very flexible.

John

--- O'Brien <obgraph at hiwaay.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:28:26 +0100, Perry Mitchell
> wrote:
> > Also depends on the device. USB2 has two speeds:
> > Full-Speed and Hi-Speed. The former is really
> USB1.1 and is limited to
> > 12Mb/s. My Humax PVR works at this speed even
> though it says USB2 on the
> > box!
> 
> Well...*that's* discouraging. How can you tell if an
> external HD is *really* USB2 before you buy it?
> 
> I'm looking at this one as an example:
> <http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Maxtor/M01H250/>
> 
> I was just about decided to get a USB2 card and HD,
> but maybe should spend for an FW HD.
> 
> 
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> 
> O'Brien
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