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Speeding up my G4

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MrCheeto said:
If all of the drives are SATA and your card supports the total number of SATA devices you plan to plug into it, then you can lay, velcro, and duct tape drives inside and out as much as you like.
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Yes, I plan on two 2TB internal SATA's for inside, which is what the card supports for inside. But I also plan to LEAVE the three PATA's in place exactly as they are now. My question is: is there any problem with THAT? Currently, I have an external SATA Superdrive plugged in via USB 2.0 and it works flawlessly....So I presume this planned addition will also....Am I correct???? That's what I want to know.
 
DeeGee48 said:
Yes, I plan on two 2TB internal SATA's for inside, which is what the card supports for inside. But I also plan to LEAVE the three PATA's in place exactly as they are now. My question is: is there any problem with THAT? Currently, I have an external SATA Superdrive plugged in via USB 2.0 and it works flawlessly....So I presume this planned addition will also....Am I correct???? That's what I want to know.
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I have a heavily upgraded G4 tower also. I only keep 2 drives internal although I have 4 total. I do this to help reduce heat inside the case. I have 2x 1TB in the case and then a 1TB and 500GB external. I use the 2 internals for boot and data I need to have fast access to. I use the 1TB external for storing personal video collections etc. and the 500GB for time machine.

If you're going with a sata card then I suggest using only sata drives. That way you can boot from modern drives with much faster access speeds. The only IDE drives in my case are the DVD and ZIP drives.

The best place in my opinion for a 3rd internal is where the zip drive lives under the DVD.

As SATA cards go I would highly recommend a FirmTek. I have one and they work flawlessly on G4 towers.

EDIT: Just wanted to add that one of the best upgrades I ever did to my system was use a Western Digital Caviar Black HD as the boot drive. I made a 120GB boot partition with it at the start of the drive. Thats the fastest part of the drive. I have the newest revision of the drive which has a giant 64MB buffer. That would be a great upgrade to your machine. Or something even faster maybe.. like a Velociraptor.
 
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zen.state said:
As SATA cards go I would highly recommend a FirmTek. I have one and they work flawlessly on G4 towers.
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Thanks a lot for your input as I continue to work this through. I'm still flexible, and I like some of your ideas, so who knows how far I'll go. But I can say now that it IS a FirmTek card that I'm hot on! Made by former Apple hands; gotta be good! :apple: :)
 
With Dual 1.25@1.50 GHz, it will be something about 20% gain in processing power. Some more in multithreaded apps. But: more Hertz on CPU and cache = more heat generated. Especially with Dual CPU cards. Better cooling will be recommended then (with single CPUs not necessary).
 
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