[G4] Adding HD capacity..

[Craig Turner]

Steve,

I added an external Firewire drive from Other World Computing. Bought 
the case (they come in Firewire/USB and USB versions; get the 
Firewire/USB) and put in an 80Gig HD (bought from New Egg--I think it 
was an Hitachi drive, 7200RPM).

There is no problem with the OWC cases that have the Oxford 911 chip 
installed; it is fast and reliable. You might alternatively choose to 
just let OWC put a drive in it—check their site. Of course, there are 
lots of places now that have external Firewire drives. Just look 
around.

You can chain together Firewire drives very easily, and at 200+ Gig HDs 
now available, you can quickly add space for lots of 
video/audio/graphic files.

HTH,
Craig Turner

On Apr 30, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Stephen L. Phillips wrote:

> Help, again?? (thanks to all  who posted and replied to my queries re: 
> remote desktop access!)...
> Just got off the phone with Apple support (yep, spent the big bucks 
> for Applecare!), but - although gracious and polite - their tech rep 
> wasn't particularly knowledgeable with regard to my question, which is 
> this:
>
> I have a G4/933 (768M RAM, 2 internal 60G's) and need to add 
> significant hard drive capacity for digital video conversion and 
> storage. How large a drive can I install, and how many more 
> (considering the fact that there are two internal's already? Also, 
> would it be better to add an external firewire drive, and - if so - 
> how large can I go?
> .....etc.