[G4] Question about Firewire enclosure / hard drive

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I'll double that newbie response: I'm under the impression that the sawtooth 
has an empty bay where you could just install the drive directly as a 
slave...no need to go external at all. Or you could swap the original out to 
your external enclosure and put the new drive inside. Seems easier to just 
slave the new drive


>From: Michelle <happydog at northmo.net>
>Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." 
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>To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." 
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>Subject: [G4] Question about Firewire enclosure / hard drive
>Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 22:24:06 -0500
>
>Hi,
>
>Please forgive the newbie question, but my G4 "Sawtooth" needs more hard 
>drive space and my current arrangement is just entirely too slow (using a 
>LaCie "Brick" USB external drive.) The "Brick" is fine for backing up 
>files, photos, etc - but is way too slow to use for much of anything else.
>
>I am just now learning what exactly a "Firewire Enclosure" even IS... and 
>what it would/could do in my situation. It sounds like a reasonable route 
>to go, for additional hard drive space at a faster speed than the LaCie 
>external drive.
>
>My question to you all is - if I buy the enclosure "thing"... (I found some 
>on some respected Mac websites, am thinking about one made by "MacAlly") - 
>where do I then purchase the actual hard drive to go inside the thing? How 
>much would I expect to pay for the actual drive? The website says that the 
>MacAlly enclosure "Supports any capacity 3.5" ATA (IDE) Hard Drive"... but 
>I have no idea where to go buy such a thing.
>
>Any suggestions would be great.
>
>Thanks,
>Michelle
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