[G4] Internal Hard Drive over 120 GB?

[sr ferenczy]

i got close to 2x the performance when i moved my 120 GB WD SE (8mb 
cache) drive to an ata133 card (acard) i now have a pair of them on the 
card, and use them for DV. i believe they can be booted off of even on 
the card....

in short, yes you will see increased performance booting off of the WD 
drive on an ata 133 card.

sandor

On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 04:03  PM, Glenn Peterson wrote:

> Sandor,
>
> If I purchase an WD 120GB hd with 8MB cache would I see a better speed 
> increase from putting this as my boot HD or connecting it via a PCI 
> IDE controller?  I am trying to figure out if I need to purchase a 
> controller or if I could just configure it as the boot HD and see a 
> speed increase.  Thank you.
>
> Glenn
>
>
>
> On Monday, May 05, 2003, at 06:48AM, FERENCZY 
> <srf7425 at osfmail.isc.rit.edu> wrote:
>
>> in general, bundled hardware is wintel specific in the onboard 
>> rom/drivers
>> support. with regard to harddrive controllers, i have never found a
>> bundled controller that supports macs (i have about 6 ata 100 and 133
>> controllers that were bundled) basically, if it doesnt blatantly say 
>> "mac
>> os9/x support" it doesnt support it.
>>
>> sandor
>>
>> On Sun, 4 May 2003, Steve O'Neill wrote:
>>
>>> sr ferenczy wrote:
>>>> another thing to look out for is that any PCI controller that comes 
>>>> with
>>>> the drives WILL NOT work in a mac.
>>>
>>> Yikes! I almost bought one yesterday.  Is this a generalization, or 
>>> is
>>> it true of all bundled controllers, and why?
>>>
>>>
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