[G4] G4 upgrade to SATA and SSD

[Wayne Wilkin]

seems like a waste of money!

On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Todd Finnigan wrote:

> Kristen,
> 
> I upgraded my G4 with a SATA card, SATA drives, and a SSD. It ran much faster but had to trial and error 3 different cards before it worked... took 2 months with back and forth shipping. And I think the extra heat took a toll on the power supply. Never ran quite right. Ended up getting a used G5 for $299, moved all the hardware across, and everything ran great. I think the Sonett card that's bootable works best in the G4, but for not much more money you can get a used G5, put the SSD in that and be better off. That's my experience.
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> Todd Finnigan
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>   1. Re: Hard drive upgrade options? (Alan Kidner)
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> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:14:12 +0100
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> 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
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> 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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