[MacDV] Re: internal drives

[Eric Phillips]

Are you saying that the best way to upgrade a G3 hard drive is to go
with a firewire drive instead of an internal drive. With all the
problems I hear about not being able to download the video directly to
the firewire drive I was trying to stay away from them. When I was
researching what to do with my 733MHz G4 I found that the fast internal
drives like the Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 drives are actually faster than
the firewire drives. But then I have a 100MHz bus. Do all G3s have less
than a 100MHz bus? Will this then make a difference using a second
internal drive versus an additional firewire drive. He may already have
a firewire card so that cost will not be a factor.

Eric

>>> GarFairies at aol.com 05/27/03 12:39PM >>>
I was told by a video instructor that the BUS speed must be 100 or
faster in 
order to do video, anything slower than that will take forever to
upload and 
render.  My beige G3's BUS is 60 which is too slow so rather than spend
the 
money on the G3 to add in firewire I upgraded to a G4 with 125BUS.

Beth-katherine Kaiman
www.smockingstore.com 

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