<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Hi,<br><br>I have a dual 500 setup, and I added a SATA PCI card to my G4, can't remember the make, and the speed increase for me was worth the effort. It's a little heartbreaking at first, because you always get the folder with the question mark at startup before it kicks over to the SATA disk, but the throughput is impressive.<br><br>I'd be very interested in those benchmarks someone was thinking of doing - it would be interesting to know if firewire could compete.<br><br>David<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>From: CHARLES JENNINGS <cjenn2006@verizon.net><br><br>My sys is
g4 desktop 2002 model. sys specs as follows<br>[...]<br>I'm looking at a Hitachi 250 gig<br> A few questions, G tech seems to be well thought of<br>and they use Hitachi drives. some of the ones i see,<br>say Hitachi OEM and some are Hitachi/IBM OEM, is<br>there any diff in quality and last is internal faster<br>than external.Using firewire 400. <br>Thanks in advance chas. j<br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>