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SATA Controller for Quicksilver
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I have a QS2001 and Im looking to upgrade the drives in it. I have one 60gb and a 80gb and with the 128gb limit on the onboard controller it makes no sense to use that. I was thinking of getting an SATA controller to drive two 250gb drives. I just want something very basic, possibly under 50 US Dollars, any ideas?
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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Firmtek, Sonnet, SIIG, Acard all make excellent (and practically identical) basic 2 port cards, however, to get one <<$50 you should probably look at a used one off ebay, the marketplace forum here or at mosr......
I got an older, basic Firmtek 1S2 late last year for $42.00 from someone here......
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Pointless exercise on a PCI bus though. May as well just get a ATA PCI card and save the costs of SATA on the card and disks.
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Originally Posted by dimmer
Pointless exercise on a PCI bus though. May as well just get a ATA PCI card and save the costs of SATA on the card and disks.
What cost savings? S-ATA cards and drives are cheaper than ATA. 
Anyways, if you're looking for a solid and cheap card to get the job done, look no further than this SIIG.
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You must have a better supplier than Frys! There's a (rough) $50 premium on SATA drives here , c/w ATA models of the same capacity / speed (didn't check cache, but if anything SATA should need less cache rather than more). A PCI ATA card is $19.99, the cheapest SATA one I could find was $49.99. Of course, this was all brick and mortar shopping, you may get different results on that intranetwebbything.
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Huh?
S-ATA drives are cheaper pretty much everywhere now that the production of ATA drives has wound down. And you must be looking at PC compatible ATA cards because the cheapest Mac compatible ATA card I can find is $69.
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Originally Posted by dimmer
Pointless exercise on a PCI bus though. May as well just get a ATA PCI card and save the costs of SATA on the card and disks.
Isn't the quicksilver PIC a 64bit-33Mhz Bus? Thus able to achieve 133MB/sec? Most SATA drives are able to push 60-70MB so I don't see how it is pointless? Seems to far exceed the onboard ATA-66 controller that will get 40ish on a good day. Maybe i'm missing something here...
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Originally Posted by zerostar
Maybe i'm missing something here...
You're not.
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
You're not.
ok cool, so I was planning on striping two SATA drives in a RAID 0 on one controller, should I be able to hit the 133MB limit or would that require 2 different SATA cards?
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If you are talking about a HARDWARE Raid card (a good bit more $$ than a regular SATA card), then yes you should get pretty close to 133mb/s, and yes you can run them both off of 1- 2 port card. To make the best case scenario though, both HD's should be of the same size, type & speed. And at this point, try to get SATA II cards & drives (max throughput is theoretically 2x as fast as SATA I), to further max out the performance gains
(Last edited by bowwowman; Jun 24, 2006 at 01:16 PM.
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I have an old G3 400mhz B&W, 192mb, 10gb, no OS yet
I could add the SATA controller and 2x500GB SATA disks
and a LG Duallayer burner
all it has to do is burn data on duallayerdisks
will it work?
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also, I have this burning question :
I also have a PM G4 533
I put a 250gb disk in it which was filled with 200gb of data beforehand
I could access all data, while a powermac only supports up to 128Gb
now I want to add data, but it says the disk is full (finder says it has 38gb available)
Diskwarrior 3.0.2 says the disk is damaged and beyond repairing (it works fine)
this.is.weird.
actually my plan was to
I bought an ATA PCI-controller that supports 4 drives for this G4
oh nevermindi will start a new thread..this is too confusing
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