[X4U] PowerMac recommendations

[Andrew T. Lynch]

I tried this, but the firewire enclosure I used did not dissipate heat well enough.  It worked fine for a data drive, but cooked the drive pretty quickly when I used it for the boot volume.  What enclosure are you using?

-Drew


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Andrew T. Lynch


 
On Tuesday, February 19, 2008, at 04:41PM, "N" <netkat at comcast.net> wrote:
>having a 7200 firewire drive (external) as my boot volume helps.
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>On Feb 19, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Matt Gregory wrote:
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>> I had considered a Mini.  I'm surprised to hear you're getting this 
>> kind of performance out of a 1.42 w/ 1G.  Aperture 1.5 on my PowerBook 
>> G4 1.67 w/ 1.5G is just plain too slow and I would expect the 1.42 
>> Mini to be similar.  But perhaps a new one would be better.  
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>> matt.
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