[G4] Options for adding disk space to Power Mac G4?

[Eric Smith]

Hi Tony,

Actually I believe (but I'm not certain) that the Sawtooth will
boot from USB. But I disagree that Firewire would outperform ATA/66,
since it only has FW 400. That's a max of 50 MB/s vs. 66.
USB 2.0 would promise a max of 60, but I doubt that actual speeds
can attain that.

Eric

Tony Gamble wrote:
> I highly recommend this option, except make certain it's Firewire and 
> not USB (your Mac will not boot from USB).  An external Firewire HD 
> would greatly outperform your internal ATA/66 bus.  Actually, make that 
> two external HD's, one for Leopard and one of at least the same size or 
> larger for Time Machine.  The Time Machine drive can be either FW or USB.
> 
> - Tony
> 
> On 14-Jan-08, at 11:12 PM, Richard Klein wrote:
> 
>>> 2. Install Leopard on an external Firewire 400 or USB 2.0 drive.
>>> I think this would suffer in performance vs. an internal drive,
>>> since this machine has ATA/66.
> 
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