[G4] Hard drive upgrade options?

[Alan Kidner]

Hi Kristen
I was fortunate to pick up a second-hand Sonnet Tempo SATA X4i on eBay 
at a very good price.  I have hooked up 2 x 250Gb drives in a striped 
RAID.  Two drives working like one, being roughly twice as good for 
performance but NOT good for data security (if one drive fails the data 
on both is lost), so I make sure I do regular backups.

Xbench (bench marking software) scored my RAID on the SATA card 94.73 
compared with the normal IDE drive (PATA) at 50.57.  Unfortunately, one 
cannot boot from this Sonnet card.

Best regards,  Alan

On 13/09/2011 21:44, KReitz wrote:
> I am consider options to speeding up my Gigabit G4 MMD. (Mystic) While I waiting for bidding to end on a dual processor I found though eBay, I am looking at my hard drive situation. Right now I have the stock ATA-66 drive on the 100Mhz mother board. I am evaluation drive options and looking for some input.
>
> Can I add SATA I or II? Do you even get the benefit?
> Can I add a RAID controller (or 2) and run dual SATA's as RAID 1?
> Can an SSD drive for the OS and a SATA or PATA drive be added for the data?
>
> Has anyone tried these solutions with success?
>
> Kristen
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