Installing two SATA drives in a Quicksilver 2002

[i2blong]

I have two drives in my Quicksilver 2002 G4, one is a 250GB which can be fully used, the other an 80GB. Can U rid both of these drives and install two SATA 1.5TB drives? I do not want to use the PCI slots for a SCSI card and wire additional drives that way, because the transfer speed will be limited to 40mbps I believe. I have a Sonnet card a dual PPC 1,8Ghz card, a PCI USB 2.0 card and have other open PCI slots, but finally ran out of storage, and have a use for this machine to hold a LOT more. Other than the transfer speeds possible on SATA, are there any other differences between the original IDE (ATA) drives? Do they connect the same way? Any help?

 

[sushi]

The PM comes with IDE (PATA) drives.

PATA and SATA drives do not have the same cabling. So you will need a PCI card that supports SATA HDs to connect and use SATA drives.

 

[i2blong]

Does a pci card that has capability to support SATA hard drives use a slower bus for processing? Are there any PATA drives that are over 1TB? That might solve the problem of storage, but the largest I just found was 500GB, which is too small.

 

[sushi]

Does a pci card that has capability to support SATA hard drives use a slower bus for processing? Are there any PATA drives that are over 1TB? That might solve the problem of storage, but the largest I just found was 500GB, which is too small.

I'm not sure of the PCI bus on the PM933. I think that it's 66. The system bus is 133.

The largest PATA drives that I've seen are 500GB.

You could get a PCI SATA card like this one:

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_serial_ata.html

Sonnet Tech cards reliable but expensive.

I found a similar card from a different manufacturer for my PC that cost about $20. It works fine.

 

[Qianlong]

If you want to use sata HDDs inside the QS G4 you must buy a PCI SATA card. You can't buy any pc branded card, it must be a card with a mac compatible controller chip.

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet Technology/TSATA/

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Firmtek/FTST1S2/

and you'll also need a sata power adapter.

http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/std/sku=SATA_power

I also wanted to upgrade my QS G4 with some sata drives, but I think it's cheaper and faster to built or buy an external firewire HDD case.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/add-ons-and-hubs/enclosure-kits