I have upgraded hard drives in a Mac Mini 1.6 Core Duo OS X 10.4.11 (WD WD1600BEVS) and a Firewire Clamshell Ibook OS X 10.3.9 (WD WD800BEVE). I just cloned a backup copy to the new drives. So I did not do a complete reinstall of the OS, since the disks aren't readily available right now. I have seen some issues with both of these drives.
Mac mini I am experiencing moments were the drive just hangs for a few seconds and then all the tasks catch up. I have noticed the speed of the drive is faster when doing large copies of files but tasks seem to suffer. Like I am not able to have as many tabs in safari open without safari stuttering when I am scrolling through a open page.
Clamshell Ibook has the same issues as the Mac Mini but it is more problematic. I thought replacing the IBM 4200 10 gig hard drive with the new WD 80 gig with 8mg of cache there would be some type of difference for the better. Again I noticed transfer and copy speeds are faster when copying large files. But when I browse web sites in Camino the pages are much slower.
I am trying to figure out if there is something that I overlooked. Besides doing a complete install of the software onto the drive, like firmware updates on the drives. I have not come across a way of doing that, yet. Maybe someone would like to chime in on something I have over looked or didn't think of. Anyways, thanks again for any and all help.
Dankman
Mac mini I am experiencing moments were the drive just hangs for a few seconds and then all the tasks catch up. I have noticed the speed of the drive is faster when doing large copies of files but tasks seem to suffer. Like I am not able to have as many tabs in safari open without safari stuttering when I am scrolling through a open page.
Clamshell Ibook has the same issues as the Mac Mini but it is more problematic. I thought replacing the IBM 4200 10 gig hard drive with the new WD 80 gig with 8mg of cache there would be some type of difference for the better. Again I noticed transfer and copy speeds are faster when copying large files. But when I browse web sites in Camino the pages are much slower.
I am trying to figure out if there is something that I overlooked. Besides doing a complete install of the software onto the drive, like firmware updates on the drives. I have not come across a way of doing that, yet. Maybe someone would like to chime in on something I have over looked or didn't think of. Anyways, thanks again for any and all help.
Dankman
