Upgrading my g4 733 quicksilver Hard Drive

[drizahy4]

Hello All,

I was looking into getting a new hard drive for my G4 because 40Gigs just Aint doing it for cuz IMovie takes up a lot of space. Now I was looking into getting this drive

SAMSUNG 160GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model SP1604N, OEM Drive Only

Model# SP1604N

Specifications:
Capacity: 160GB
Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
Buffer: 2MB
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
Interface: IDE ULTRA ATA133
Features: Fluid Dynamic Bearing Spindle Motor Technology
Manufacturer Warranty: 3 years
Packaging: OEM Drive Only

or something of that sort...
Anyway the quicksilver I had came with a ATA/66 if im not mistaken.
Now for my questions

1) Do you think the drive is any good?
2) when I do get a hard drive would it be better to use the new drive as my master drive considering it will have the ATA/133? (The quicksilver did come with ATA/133 so would it be worth doing that and putting my current drive as the slave)
3) Do you think I will see any improvment in performance?

Thanks for all the help.

PS the drive above is going for $91.00

[krimson]

IIRC, you'll need a seperate ATA card for the QS to see a drive over 120gb.

[drizahy4]

well i've been looking at xlr8yourmac.com (http://xlr8yourmac.com/IDE/big_ide_drive_support.html#storytop) and alot of people who have tried hard drives over 120gigs with 10.2.x and have had no problems.

The link has the info.

[Mord]

your quicksilver has ata 66 not 133 it will work in osx and os 9 but os 9 will only see the first 128GB of data

[drizahy4]

hey guys sorry i brought back my old thread but i thought it would be better to keep it all together. Any way I got a new HD a WD 160Gb 7200 for $107 which I thought is not a bad deal...
Anyway it has a 8Mb cache compared to the stock HD which has only a 2Mb cache.

I was thinking would it be better to run that as my Main drive and put my old one to slave? or does it not matter?
Also should I run the OS off the new drive or should I leave it on the old one?

Im just trying to see what would be the norm for upgrading.

P.S. This is the first time I upgraded the hard drive on my mac did it on my pc plenty of times but I must say god I love how easy macs are to work with. 2 years old and still impresses me to this day.