Hi guys,I am "studying" what is the best solution for my powermac g4,and maybe you can help too..
First consideration:
IDE Bus - in my case,ATA 66 => 66Mb/s Top
Second Consideration,and this is where I stopped:
Read/Write speeds vs time acess vs price:
Basically: Wich is better?
A good CF or a good mechanica drive?
For Example I spent about 22eur in a 8Gb 233X CF+ adapter,wich does about
34MB/s Write
30Mb/s Read
wich is +- the speeds that it was rated for,with the benefit of almost zero time acess.
For about 40eur,the only thing that I can get is a Transcend 400X 8Gb wich is rated for:
Write Speed: 60MB/s
Read Speed: 90MB/s
Wouldn't be better to choose a 3.5' Seagate Barracuda 500Gb 16Mb Cache SATA II Single Plate (ST3500418AS) for the same 40eur??(I already have the sata do ide adapter)
It is rated for 160Mb/s,so I guess it will do with ease the 66Mb/s of the ide barrier right?
I tested an old Hitachi 160Gb 8mb cache 7200rpm IDE 3.5' on a powermac 733Mhz and gave me something like 55MB/s for read/write.
Other option that I have is buying a used external firewire HDD,and use it as main,but guess would be slower right?
I seen WD Studio 3.5' 500Gb for 45eur (without warranty) and Iomega 2.5 500Gb with warranty for 50eur.
The thing is that I already own a 250Gb external HDD (usb2).
Opinions and benchmarks needed
Here is a benchark from a user of macrumors:
First consideration:
IDE Bus - in my case,ATA 66 => 66Mb/s Top
Second Consideration,and this is where I stopped:
Read/Write speeds vs time acess vs price:
Basically: Wich is better?
A good CF or a good mechanica drive?
For Example I spent about 22eur in a 8Gb 233X CF+ adapter,wich does about
34MB/s Write
30Mb/s Read
wich is +- the speeds that it was rated for,with the benefit of almost zero time acess.
For about 40eur,the only thing that I can get is a Transcend 400X 8Gb wich is rated for:
Write Speed: 60MB/s
Read Speed: 90MB/s
Wouldn't be better to choose a 3.5' Seagate Barracuda 500Gb 16Mb Cache SATA II Single Plate (ST3500418AS) for the same 40eur??(I already have the sata do ide adapter)
It is rated for 160Mb/s,so I guess it will do with ease the 66Mb/s of the ide barrier right?
I tested an old Hitachi 160Gb 8mb cache 7200rpm IDE 3.5' on a powermac 733Mhz and gave me something like 55MB/s for read/write.
Other option that I have is buying a used external firewire HDD,and use it as main,but guess would be slower right?
I seen WD Studio 3.5' 500Gb for 45eur (without warranty) and Iomega 2.5 500Gb with warranty for 50eur.
The thing is that I already own a 250Gb external HDD (usb2).
Opinions and benchmarks needed
Here is a benchark from a user of macrumors:
Code:Drive Type WDC WD1600BEKT-00F3T0 Disk Test 72.25 Sequential 123.73 Uncached Write 142.05 87.22 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 121.60 68.80 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 101.85 29.81 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 138.00 69.36 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 51.02 Uncached Write 18.28 1.93 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 157.93 50.56 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 93.43 0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 150.47 27.92 MB/sec [256K blocks]
This is 2.5" WD Black in my eMac with SATA -> IDE 3.5" adapter.