[G4] Options for adding disk space to Power Mac G4?

[Richard Klein]

On Jan 14, 2008 10:40 PM, Eric Smith <eric-s-smith at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have a Power Mac G4 ("Sawtooth" model) with these attributes:
> 1.0 GHz CPU (Sonnet upgrade)
> 1.3 GB RAM
> USB 2.0 card
> 2 internal ATA drives:
>   - 20 GB drive w/ two partitions, one has OS 9.2.2 and the other
>     has 10.4.11
>   - 57 GB drive at this time mainly holds iTunes database
>     (~18 GB and growing slowly)
>
> I want to install Leopard on this system, just because it's the
> latest and greatest and I want to play with it, and also to try
> out Time Machine. I would do an initial install and not disturb
> the contents of the 20 GB drive. My options as I see it are:
>
> 2. Install Leopard on an external Firewire 400 or USB 2.0 drive.
> I think this would suffer in performance vs. an internal drive,
> since this machine has ATA/66.
>
> 3. Put the iTunes db on an external drive and use the 57 GB drive
> just for Leopard. This could be done, if the external drive has
> enough performance to stream iTunes (probably not a problem).
> It would seem a little inconvenient to have to have the external
> drive powered up every time iTunes was used though.

I like option 3 best.  If you go for option 2, can your Mac boot off a
USB drive?  I'd go with a Firewire drive to be sure you can boot off
it.

-- 
Rich