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Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / October 2005Fitting extra DVD drive into G4
My internal zip drive has out lived its purpose. I no longer use it and was exploring the possibility of replacing it with an IDE DVD drive (or perhaps an IDE hard drive) in addition to the one that's in the top bay. Just fishing for some feedback on those of you that have a two DVD combo? PGW G4 AGP, 1ghz (Sonnet upgrade) > My internal zip drive has out lived its purpose. I no longer use it and > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > PGW > G4 AGP, 1ghz (Sonnet upgrade) I have IDE hard drive fitted underneath the DVD drive in my G4 Sawtooth tower. It works OK but it is slower compared to other drives due to slower bus (ATA). I am about to install SATA PCI card and swap out 2 out of my 3 ATA HD to SATA. Cheers A. ><snip> > I am about to install SATA PCI card and swap out 2 out of my 3 ATA HD to > SATA. I'd be interested to know which brand/model PCI SATA card you intend to install? I'd rather go with something I know has been proven to work without issues... BTW, your old dual 1.8's are still humming along nicely ;)  Signature/J/ > I'd be interested to know which brand/model PCI SATA card you intend to > install? I'd rather go with something I know has been proven to work > without issues... > > BTW, your old dual 1.8's are still humming along nicely ;) I've used the Seritek cards without problems for well over a year now. Dale Signaturedstanbro@spam.o.matic.bigpond.net.au I placed an order for SIIG SATA PCI card http://www.siig.com/product.asp?catid=115&pid=556. According to reviews it works as advertised. I also bought 2 Maxtor 250 Gig SATA drives. Here is Segate v Maxtor comparison http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/seagate/ PS, good to hear about Giga dual upgrade. Andy PS, do you need a video card? >> <snip> > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > BTW, your old dual 1.8's are still humming along nicely ;) > My internal zip drive has out lived its purpose. I no longer use it and > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Just fishing for some feedback on those of you that have a two DVD > combo? I have a third IDE HD in a G4 500DP Gigabit ethernet no probs. I also put a new fan in the PS as these seem to slow get noisey after a while. > My internal zip drive has out lived its purpose. I no longer use it and > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > PGW > G4 AGP, 1ghz (Sonnet upgrade) I added a superdrive (lacie) to my G4 which I bought with a combo drive. I moved the old combo into 2nd place. Easy job, and both work fine (you have to remove the facia plate from the lacie). |
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