[G4] Question about Firewire enclosure / hard drive

[Steve Goldstein]

Yes, Michelle, you understand correctly.  All of your points below. 
Option C is probably about $20 cheaper than buying it all 
pre-sssembled.  Check the prices on newegg.com.  The price you show 
below seems kind of high for 120 GB.  For that amount of money, you 
should be getting more capacity.

Also, 120 GB is about as much as you could install internally to be 
recognized, but you could install much more in an external FW 
enclosure and have it all recognized.  Has to do with the limitations 
of the interior ATA bus.  --Steve

At 9:38 PM -0500 5/30/07, Michelle wrote:
>...
>Am I understanding you correctly that I could feasibly purchase 
>something like the:
>
>** 120GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 7200rpm 8.5ms 8MB Cache Ultra ATA/10  **   
>
>from a website like OWC for around $75.
>
>With this "drive", I could either:
>
>A)  install it INTO my Sawtooth in the "second" drive available 
>spot? (I didn't know there was such a spot/slot...)
>
>B) replace the current (27GB?) hard drive with this new, bigger 
>drive of 120 GB
>
>C) put this new drive into a firewire enclosure (for about $50 
>more?), and use it as an "external" storage/drive
>
>
>IF I chose to do Option C, why would that (or would that) be faster 
>than just buying an external firewire hard drive in the first place?
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