[videian28]

what would be the optimum hard drive setups for a dual G4 for as much speed as possible, I was thinking 2 striped smaller 8mb cache high speed drives for whatever the os needed(and any games I wanted to run) and 2 80-120 gig drives stripped or mirrored for data storage\

kinda new to macs, is ther a better way to do it than on a PC?

[awcopus]

I have a dual 1.42 with two 200GB drives hardware striped (Sonnet) as a scratch disc for video editing, then two 180GB drives, one as a startup volume, the other running off its own Sonnet card.

Video editor, need performance. Extremely happy with my setup. All of the drives are Western Digital's Caviars with 8MB buffers. Buy your drives from Hypermicro. Research'em at storagereview.com.

Good luck.

[videian28]

ahh very nice, not sure I need that much space, (yet)

why the 180 gig for the os disk?

was actually thinking of a 10000 rpm startup disk, but they seem to all be SATA..

[awcopus]

I just like having space. Live in a relatively small apartment in NYC, but when I'm on my machine it's like big sky country. LOL!

As others have observed, most of the startup happens in firmware. A 10,000 RPM disk for a startup drive is overkill. A couple of those striped? Could be very nice, but really only if you're editing SDI at full res. or HD, not DV. At that point, you probably want an external RAID setup anyway.

Good luck with your config.