[G4] Re: G4 Digest, Vol 24, Issue 1

[Robert MacLeay]

I expect it depends on which G4 you are running, but I would strongly
recommend getting a PCI card. Not only will you have access to a lot of new
space, free, but reading and writing may be a lot faster as well.

In QuickBench tests on my G4-upgraded B&W, read/write speeds with an ATA/133
PCI card showed up to 50% faster throughput compared to the on-board disk
controller.  This was with an older 80 GB Maxtor Drive.


On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:11:06 -0500, "Richard M. Kriss"
<rmkriss at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Also, any advantage to adding a software or hardware fix to have the G4 see
> more than 128 GB?  I have a Seagate 200 GB as my primary and a Western
> Digital 160 GB as the backup in this G4-1GHz-AGP and they are only half
> used.  The G4 thinks they are both 128 GB drives.