[X4U] 3 Gb/s HD

[Christopher Collins]

Paul,

It should not "harm" it in any way, but it will limit the performance  
when accessing that drive.

cjc

On 18/06/2008, at 12:49 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote:

> Christopher,
>
> There's a 3 Gb drive inside when delivered, I've another 3 Gb from a  
> G5 and a non 3 Gb also from that G5.
> I've enough drives, I just wanted to know if it would arm to install  
> it as thew third drive.  And I already have an external drive for  
> backup.
>
> Paul Moortgat
>
> On 17 Jun 2008, at 14:21, Christopher Collins wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> With the price of SATA-II hard drives these days, is it worth  
>> hampering the performance of your Mac Pro to save a few dollars?
>>
>> IOW, you spent the money on a Mac Pro, so why limits it's  
>> performance by installing slower disks?
>>
>> Use them for external backup drives.
>>
>> cjc
>>
>>
>> On 17/06/2008, at 10:03 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote:
>>
>>> In the Mac_Pro_Early_2008.pdf file is written on page 51 to use 3  
>>> Gb/s HD drives.
>>> Shouls it be a problem to install older non 3 Gb/s drives?  They  
>>> might run slower, but will it cause problems?
>>> I've still some of these.
>>>
>>> Paul Moortgat
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