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Power Macs are waiting for Serial ATA
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Incidentally, it is superfast.
As far as the noise, it is certainly not a quiet computer, but it is no louder than the new Dell P4 2.8's that we installed at work this week.
There will be some interest in the following:
It shipped with a Samsung PS.
As far as the noise, it is certainly not a quiet computer, but it is no louder than the new Dell P4 2.8's that we installed at work this week.
There will be some interest in the following:
It shipped with a Samsung PS.
i'm glad to hear. I was very nervous while awaiting my order to be shipped. All of the posts about troubles had me shaking in my boots.
Oh well, I am glad that it worked out. I gave it a good go-around over the past couple of days and it is working great.
Now the only thing that has me cringing is the pending updates! If I kept waiting, I would never have bought another Mac.
Cheers.
Oh well, I am glad that it worked out. I gave it a good go-around over the past couple of days and it is working great.
Now the only thing that has me cringing is the pending updates! If I kept waiting, I would never have bought another Mac.
Cheers.
I don't see why Apple wouldn't include Serial ATA. Apple has obviously lost the megahertz war, it may as well try to compete in other areas (as they're doing with software).
Re: Recent arrival
i did the same ( i also got a sd) but mine is an ibm disk. i agree, i think they use multiple brands. but if they started using serial ata ... how many compaines have serial ata drives??
actually i think they are trying to move attantion away from desktop hardware at the moment. not just the processors. if they did this then people would ask where the faster processors are. and jobs would be left to say:
"these ones do basically the same thing, just better" (quote from WWDC when he cut opendoc+newton pre-CEO status)
i did the same ( i also got a sd) but mine is an ibm disk. i agree, i think they use multiple brands. but if they started using serial ata ... how many compaines have serial ata drives??
actually i think they are trying to move attantion away from desktop hardware at the moment. not just the processors. if they did this then people would ask where the faster processors are. and jobs would be left to say:
"these ones do basically the same thing, just better" (quote from WWDC when he cut opendoc+newton pre-CEO status)
Serial ATA would be a good thing
Provided that Serial ATA will not come at SCSI prices then it would be a logical feature of future Macs. How soon? No more than a year would be a guess based on the fact that although the technology is now demoed, no drives can be bought yet. It would be great to have one 40GB Serial ATA drive and one 500GB IDE drive in the PowerMacs. The faster drive could take care of OS duties while the bigger drive could be used for media storage. OS X would be a lot more snappy in a set-up like this.
I do wonder if the original FireWire would be any slower than FireWire 2 when handling Serial ATA drives. We have yet to see a need for the faster FireWire but my guess is that faster drives will have something to do with it.
Provided that Serial ATA will not come at SCSI prices then it would be a logical feature of future Macs. How soon? No more than a year would be a guess based on the fact that although the technology is now demoed, no drives can be bought yet. It would be great to have one 40GB Serial ATA drive and one 500GB IDE drive in the PowerMacs. The faster drive could take care of OS duties while the bigger drive could be used for media storage. OS X would be a lot more snappy in a set-up like this.
I do wonder if the original FireWire would be any slower than FireWire 2 when handling Serial ATA drives. We have yet to see a need for the faster FireWire but my guess is that faster drives will have something to do with it.
Re: Serial ATA would be a good thing
Serial ATA will cost about the same as current ATA, but you aren't gonna see any performance gains until we start getting faster HDDs (2 or 3 times faster than current IDE drives). Serial ATA HDDs will just be ATA/133 drives w/a different interface (neither of which can even max out ATA/66).
I think that's the reason Serial ATA has kinda stalled is 'cause there is no compelling reason to change.
Lethal
Serial ATA will cost about the same as current ATA, but you aren't gonna see any performance gains until we start getting faster HDDs (2 or 3 times faster than current IDE drives). Serial ATA HDDs will just be ATA/133 drives w/a different interface (neither of which can even max out ATA/66).
I think that's the reason Serial ATA has kinda stalled is 'cause there is no compelling reason to change.
Lethal
about different brands of HDs
Apple indeed uses different brands from time to time.
The beige G3 here has a Western Digital Caviar
My own G4 (350 sawtooth) has a Western Digital
My dad's G4 (single 800 quicksilver has a Seagate Barracuda
Some newer G4's than my Dad's quicksilver have maxtor (if I'm not mistaken), or were it the older ones?
Apple indeed uses different brands from time to time.
The beige G3 here has a Western Digital Caviar
My own G4 (350 sawtooth) has a Western Digital
My dad's G4 (single 800 quicksilver has a Seagate Barracuda
Some newer G4's than my Dad's quicksilver have maxtor (if I'm not mistaken), or were it the older ones?