[G4] ready to go

[Eric Wood]

Hello Jim Kirk,

Yes, I am a trekkie. But to answer your question, if you are using  
your Mac's built-in ATA and then you add your SATA drives, all of the  
hard drives will be fine. Your LaCie will also be just fine - there  
is no real limit to how many hard drives you can have hooked up,  
assuming there's space, a data cable and power available to it. With  
Firewire and USB, you could have over 120 hard drives externally,  
which of course you probably won't be doing. I do wonder how many  
drives in total you'll have inside your Mac once you've added those  
SATA drives. I'd recommend removing the old drive completely and just  
using the new, huge ones. Your Mac's power supply can only give so  
much, after all, and in my experience, Apple's power supplies don't  
go very high in wattage.

Plug 'n play 'n enjoy! You have a terabyte to fill up!

Eric

Am 31.08.2007 um 15:41 schrieb <thekirkline1941 at verizon.net>:

> Thank you all for your help on getting the info on my G4. I have  
> purchased a Sonnet Tempo 2-port serial ATA card and two 500 GB  
> Seagate hard drives. I believe I am capable of inserting the card  
> and connecting the two drives. However, my question is: what  
> happens to the hard drive already in the computer? Will it connect  
> automatically with the new setup or will it just sit there acting  
> stupid (like me). My LaCie external hard drive, which has all my  
> data backed up, is currently disconnected. I am assuming that, when  
> I reconnect it, it will be recognized and I can just copy all the  
> data to the new hard drives. Thanks.
>
> Jim Scarborough Kirk
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