[G4] AGP hard drive question

[Wayne Clodfelter]

Purely personal preference as to whether to SCSI or not. If you opt  
to hook up an IDE (ATA) drive to the connector on the mobo, or/and a  
SCSI drive to the PCI card, you should not notice any difference in  
operation. There may be some minor differences in I/O speed between  
the two, but I don't know that you'd notice.

I went from ATA to SATA a few months ago and I like it (no master/ 
slave mumbo-jumbo). Now thinking of adding a couple of SATA II drives  
internally as well.

If it were me, I'd go SATA II all the way. It's not fully developed  
(as I understand it), but it is the leading edge, or nearer to  
leading edge than either SCSI or ATA at this time. Why go backwards?

On Feb 6, 2006, at 5:49 PM, JayB wrote:

>
> On Feb 6, 2006, at 4:18 PM, David DelMonte wrote:
>
>> You can do several things. You still can add an IDE drive and  
>> connect to the cable that connects to the mother board. Those  
>> cables - plus the 4 prong power cable can support at least two or  
>> three extra ide drives.
>>
>> You can replace the scsi drive, but I personally dont like that  
>> idea - others will disagree.
>>
>> You can go with firewire - that's what I do now. More portability  
>> for when I travel.
>>
>> If you're not too comfortable installing an internal drive, I'd  
>> take out the scsi stuff and move to firewire. I think you'll be  
>> fine in Photoshop (have you looked at Aperture or LightRoom (Apple  
>> and Adobe respectively))??
>
> PS/CS-2 addresses most of my issues that were needed in PS/ CS.   
> I've heard ugly things about Aperture already and can't imagine  
> that Adobe wouldn't kick up a better solution to anything that  
> Apple would do in the (still photography) post-production dept.   
> Either way, most pros will still have to use PS for the vast  
> majority of their final color and retouching, so why add yet  
> another piece to the puzzle?  I think it's great that Apple dove  
> into the market to serve photogs-- it will keep Adobe sharp.
>
> What issues might I  incur by having both SCSI and IDE drives  
> internally?
>
> ~Jay
>
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Regards,

Wayne Clodfelter
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