[G4] G4 Power Supply

Eric Smith eric-s-smith at comcast.net
Mon Sep 22 11:48:09 PDT 2008


Luke Rademacher wrote:

> FWIW, if you want more HD space why not add externally? External HD's 
> often have their own power and attach via FireWire.

But Firewire (or USB) drives are still slower than internal ones.
Even ATA/66 is faster, and adding a SATA drive and controller card
would be waaay faster. I'd advise replacing the internal ATA drives,
which are subject to the 128GB size limitation, with a big SATA drive
or two.

Eric S.


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