[G4] Installing a SATA drive in a MDD

[Alan Kidner]

I was fortunate to pick up a second-hand Sonnet Tempo SATA X4i on eBay 
at a very good price.I have hooked up 2 x 250Gb drives in a striped 
RAID.Two drives working like one, being good for performance but not 
good for data security (if one drive fails the data on both is lost), so 
I make sure I do regular backups.

Xbench (bench marking software) scored my RAID on the SATA card 94.73 
compared with the normal IDE drive (PATA) at 50.57.Unfortunately, one 
cannot boot from this Sonnet card.

The comments about power consumption from Ronnie and John are 
interesting.When my power supply died I put a 480W standard PC ATX model 
in.Connecting it up was a bit of a game but it was rewarding to make it 
work.Notes were posted on this forum in January 2010.

Have fun!  Regards, Alan



On 12/06/2011 11:07, Bruce Ryan Nakamura wrote:
> Hello:
>
> What do I need to install a SATA drive in a G4 MDD dual 1.25 Mhz Mac?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Scot
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