[G4] G4 upgrade to SATA and SSD

[Todd Finnigan]

Kristen,

I upgraded my G4 with a SATA card, SATA drives, and a SSD. It ran much faster but had to trial and error 3 different cards before it worked... took 2 months with back and forth shipping. And I think the extra heat took a toll on the power supply. Never ran quite right. Ended up getting a used G5 for $299, moved all the hardware across, and everything ran great. I think the Sonett card that's bootable works best in the G4, but for not much more money you can get a used G5, put the SSD in that and be better off. That's my experience.

Todd Finnigan

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   1. Re: Hard drive upgrade options? (Alan Kidner)


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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:14:12 +0100
From: Alan Kidner <akidner at ntlworld.com>
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Subject: Re: [G4] Hard drive upgrade options?
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Hi Kristen
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 roughly twice as 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.

Best regards,  Alan

On 13/09/2011 21:44, 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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