Hi, I have a dual 500 setup, and I added a SATA PCI card to my G4, can't remember the make, and the speed increase for me was worth the effort. It's a little heartbreaking at first, because you always get the folder with the question mark at startup before it kicks over to the SATA disk, but the throughput is impressive. I'd be very interested in those benchmarks someone was thinking of doing - it would be interesting to know if firewire could compete. David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CHARLES JENNINGS <cjenn2006 at verizon.net> My sys is g4 desktop 2002 model. sys specs as follows [...] I'm looking at a Hitachi 250 gig A few questions, G tech seems to be well thought of and they use Hitachi drives. some of the ones i see, say Hitachi OEM and some are Hitachi/IBM OEM, is there any diff in quality and last is internal faster than external.Using firewire 400. Thanks in advance chas. j -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/attachments/20070830/01c054c7/attachment.html