internal drives

[Pat&Linda]

>
>From: "Eric Phillips"
>Subject: [MacDV] internal drives
>
>I am helping a friend upgrade his G3 to do video work. He is looking for
>an internal IDE drive. Anyone have a line on any good deals out there?
>Eric
>
>
Beth-katherine Kaiman replied:

>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


Am pretty sure lotsa G3's work fine
Mine's a 266 desktop.  IDE drive: IBM HDD.  I've pushed hours of video thru it.
I'd look at Fry's, or any other of that kinda place for a hard drive.
Something like Amazon might work.
Nothing but encouragement here.
Patrick