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How to increase HD performance???
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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I'm trying to squeek every bit of juice out of my aging BW G3. So far I've upgraded the video card to a Radeon, and I've installed a ZIF G4/550. Pretty good so far.
Is there any way to make the HD faster? I have the model that came with a Ultra SCSI 2 7200 9.1 Gig HD. I was wondering if I could upgrade to a 15K RPM HD.
Would I need a better SCSI card for this? (Maybe an Ultra3) I have the default card the unit shipped with.
And what is the fastest AND quietest HD out there?
THANKS!
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Getting a SCSI-drive for that machine is like throwing away money: It's useless and it hurts. Get either a Seagate Barracuda IV w/ 7200 RPM with either 40, 60 or 80GB or a Western Digital with 8MB Cache. Both will improve performance big time, especially in OS X and in loading applications and opening files in general.
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Join Date: Feb 2000
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I agree with D'Espice...however, if you have some extra cash, buy two ATA drives and a ATA RAID controller. I've been running RAID 0 (SIIG controller) with two Barracuda IVs (7200rpm, 80Gb)...it's very fast, reliable and there's NO software to install/configure/etc. as it's all hardware based. It's worth every penny.
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If you're recommending a RAID 0 you should warn him that reliability is only up to 50% due to the fact that if you lose one of the two harddrives, you lose all the data even on the second harddrive.
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"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one
pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside,
thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO!"
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Feb 2000
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Good point...and that's actually happened to me once (my fault, not the drive's). Fortunately the 60Gb Barracuda IV drive my QS shipped with was nearly empty at that time. Recovery was fairly painless.
To D'Espice's point, if you do go RAID, you may want to make sure you have a backup drive...or set up a mirrored array (RAID 1, 2, 5? Can't recall) so that if one drives bombs, the other will have saved all your data and you can pick up where you left off (minus one drive of course).
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- Design: QS G4 933 / GF4MX / R7k / 1GB / 160GB RAID / 60GB boot / Jaguar
- Games: Abit KD7-RAID / XP 2200+ / Ti4200 / 512MB GeIL PC3200 / 40GB / XP pro
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