[MacDV] Maxtor Maxline Plus II 7200 rpm in G4 or externals?

[R B Williams]

You might first move one of the current Hitachi drives into the external Firewire case
and see if it has reliable throughput. I have found various situations where a drive was
fine mounted internally on a 33 PCI buss but dropped when moved to Firewire. Remember
that the external case has an ATI to Firewire interface too which can cause a
bottleneck, though some are better than others.

Robert

animal wrote:

> In 18 months, I'll upgrade to a G5 or G6, but right now I need more
> space in my G4 400 with an ACARD A Hard PCI Ultra ATA/66 and 2 Hitachi
> 120GB hard drives.  I also have two older empty firewire cases (120GB
> or less)
>
> I'm looking at the Maxtor Maxline but they are ATA 133 - does this mean
> they won't work or will work slower with the ATA/66?  (I've stuck to
> Hitachi after incompatibility problems with capturing video from a
> Canon dv camcorder to an internal Western Digital hard drive.)
>
> Or would I be better off buying 2 180GB Hitachi ATA/6's to put into the
> G4?
>
> Thanks for any advice
>
> Lynn
>
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