[G4] Large 2nd hard drive

[Johns Maillist]

On Apr 17, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Carol wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have a dual Mirrored Drive Door G4 with a 160 GB hard drive.  I am 
> thinking of adding a 2nd hard drive.  I noticed that Seagate now makes 
> 400GB Ultra ATA/100 7200 rpm drive.
>
> Has anyone tried this?
>
> I have also heard that such a large drive can slow things down if one 
> used it for editing video.  I think the thought was that it would take 
> longer to find things on a larger disk.  Any thoughts?  I have found 
> that it is easy to fill 160 GB with video.
>
> --
> Carol
>

Carol, it is just my opinion, but I added a pair of serial ATA 250's to 
mine in a RAID (stripe) array.
I am VERY happy with the video editing performance!
Even if you just add one drive, I truly believe a serial ATA drive does 
give better performance than a standard IDE drive.
John

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