[G4] Hard drive upgrade options?

[Harry A. Freeman]

Greetings Kristen,

I have a MDD 1.25Ghz Dual Processor (167Mz Buss) and I have a ACARD  
6280M installed which is currently connect to a Samsung 500Gb SATA  
Spinpoint HDD which is my main boot disk. The ACARD 6280M is also  
connected to a SeaGate 750Gb SATA drive which is used my system backup  
drive. Also in my system is a Western Digital 120Gb and a Maxtor 120Gb  
(OS 9.2.2)

I use to have the ACARD 6280M in my 1999 G4 PowerMac AGP Graphics  
(100Mz Buss.) I used the AGP Graphics along with the ACARD 6280M for  
more than 10 years, just recently moving into the MDD. I upgraded the  
AGP to a 1.4Mz processor.

The only weird thing is that the SATA drive show up in the "System  
Profiler" as SCSI drive, oh well they work just fine so who cares.

I also have a combination of 5 HDD in external drive cases 3 of which  
are connected via USB 2.0 and the other 2 are connected via Firewire.

Since one of the features of have a RAID drive is that you can remove  
one of the drives in case there is a failure without shutting down the  
system. Well that wouldn't work very well as both of the drives are  
contained in the second drive case within the MDD and there wouldn't  
be any way of removing one of them without removing the drive cage  
which has a power connector that requires a major operation to remove.

IMO the Gigabit isn't fast enough to warrant a SSD drive, most SATA  
drive can furnish data as fast a the Gigabit can use it!

Cheers

Harry
San Jose, Ca
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On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:44 PM, KReitz wrote:

> I am consider options to speeding up my Gigabit G4 MMD. (Mystic)  
> While I waiting for bidding to end on a dual processor I found  
> though eBay, I am looking at my hard drive situation. Right now I  
> have the stock ATA-66 drive on the 100Mhz mother board. I am  
> evaluation drive options and looking for some input.
>
> Can I add SATA I or II? Do you even get the benefit?
> Can I add a RAID controller (or 2) and run dual SATA's as RAID 1?
> Can an SSD drive for the OS and a SATA or PATA drive be added for  
> the data?
>
> Has anyone tried these solutions with success?
>
> Kristen
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