[MacDV] Re: imovie storage

[James Asherman]

On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, at 09:10  PM, Peter van der Linden wrote:

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> On Dec 30, 2003, at 6:01 PM, Peter van der Linden wrote:
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>>  my policy is to get the biggest, fastest disks I can afford,
>
> Also be aware that the Apple disk controller is a factor in how large 
> a disk drive you can use.  For example, the ASIC used in the iMac disk 
> controller limits ATAPI storage to a 128GB drive.   This was a factor 
> when I upgraded my iMac a year ago.   There were a few 200 GB drives 
> on the market then, which I would have liked, but I was limited to 
> (what now seems a mind-bogglingly miserly) 128GB.
>
> I don't know how you can find out in general the limitations of the 
> supporting I/O hardware.  You need to be a bit hardwary.  Maybe ask on 
> one of the newsgroups how large a disk other people have used 
> successfully.  Apple never pushes the state of the art in I/O 
> capacity, probably to keep the prices lower.  Those who want to 
> upgrade are free to do so, within limits.
>
>      Peter
>

G4 tower: get thee a seagate barracuda 80 gig and slap it on top of the 
other drive.
It is easy.
Jim