My CD Rom is wasted so I'm replacing it with an older Apple SCSI CD rom to free up the ATA channel (it's a beige G3 Rev A) and then using the drive for audio.
I've borrowed a 60Gb Deskstar 60GXP off a friend and I could buy it off him if it works.
I did some testing on the drive :
It can run 24, 24 bit 48Khz channels in protools LE with no problems other than my mac's so slow I can only run 10 or so plug-ins.
It boots my usual OS 9.1 extension set in 40 seconds instead of the 2 minutes or so my internal drive manages.
Copying my system folder (7000+ files, 380Mb) to the drive took 5 minutes, duplicating the folder only just over a minute.
I created 1 huge disk image of my startup partition on the drive and it mounted fine with no errors.
From the testing it seems this drive works perfectly and it's way faster than my current drive.
A new 60Gb deskstar 120GXP is about £55, I just think with it being an old model I should aim a little lower, anyone got any idea what I should offer for it ?
I'm thinking about £40 - £50 but I'm not sure if that's wrong because the 60GXP series were more expensive than the newer drives and because I know it works fine there's no point in me buying a new one, It's only 3 or 4 months old and been used as a backup drive on a PC so it's not had any heavy use at all.
I've borrowed a 60Gb Deskstar 60GXP off a friend and I could buy it off him if it works.
I did some testing on the drive :
It can run 24, 24 bit 48Khz channels in protools LE with no problems other than my mac's so slow I can only run 10 or so plug-ins.
It boots my usual OS 9.1 extension set in 40 seconds instead of the 2 minutes or so my internal drive manages.
Copying my system folder (7000+ files, 380Mb) to the drive took 5 minutes, duplicating the folder only just over a minute.
I created 1 huge disk image of my startup partition on the drive and it mounted fine with no errors.
From the testing it seems this drive works perfectly and it's way faster than my current drive.
A new 60Gb deskstar 120GXP is about £55, I just think with it being an old model I should aim a little lower, anyone got any idea what I should offer for it ?
I'm thinking about £40 - £50 but I'm not sure if that's wrong because the 60GXP series were more expensive than the newer drives and because I know it works fine there's no point in me buying a new one, It's only 3 or 4 months old and been used as a backup drive on a PC so it's not had any heavy use at all.