[rotuts]

Hello

I though Id add what I did. I have a G4 mirror door Dual 1 Gz. don't know the manufacture date, with a ATA66 and ATA33 drive sets. two per set.

Fry's Palo ALto had a recent Hitachi/IBM deskstar rebate for the 250 GB HD to a final price of about $120

I put four in, two at each site. after much fiddling and cloning of the original 80GB HD to get the OS to boot from the new HD, things are fine.

I have AlchemyTV DVR and its taking a lot of HD space, and I have a miniDV Canon where I passs through old VCR tapes into iMovie and make DVD's out of them

of note: I had an old LaCie firewire drive with a 30GB drive in it. tried the 250 in there and got the 137/128 limit.

LaCie said there was a 'bridge' in that drive that limited things to 128 I had assumed that meant a physical item so Id never get more.

I put an old 80gb from the G4 in there and it works fine.

rotut

[Thilo Ettelt]

Originally posted by rotuts:
Hello

I though Id add what I did. I have a G4 mirror door Dual 1 Gz. don't know the manufacture date, with a ATA66 and ATA33 drive sets. two per set.

Fry's Palo ALto had a recent Hitachi/IBM deskstar rebate for the 250 GB HD to a final price of about $120

I put four in, two at each site. after much fiddling and cloning of the original 80GB HD to get the OS to boot from the new HD, things are fine.

I have AlchemyTV DVR and its taking a lot of HD space, and I have a miniDV Canon where I passs through old VCR tapes into iMovie and make DVD's out of them

of note: I had an old LaCie firewire drive with a 30GB drive in it. tried the 250 in there and got the 137/128 limit.

LaCie said there was a 'bridge' in that drive that limited things to 128 I had assumed that meant a physical item so Id never get more.

I put an old 80gb from the G4 in there and it works fine.

rotut

I'm not sure whether you have a question or not.
But my comment: I'd buy Serial-ATA drives along with Serial-ATA PCI cards to get the maximum performance and storage capacity.


- Thilo

[rotuts]

I made an error. this post of mine was to follow a previous one where somewhat asked about large drive and G4 duals.

sorru rotut

[heresiarh]

Can we add a sata pci card to a powerbook? the newer al ones, not the latest ones but the last installment. i wanted to had a sata hard drive to my pbook, or should i just get an external firewire 800 drive?