You are right. But I would not keep working with a 10 Gb hard disk that is probably 4 years old. IŽd replace the internal one with a new one _and_ would buy an external firewire equal or greater than the internal.
And well, the hassle of the jumpers is not that big when you consider what you get. [Weather report: After these 6 days of horrible Sahara weather I understand better the movie Lawrence of Arabia.] Javier > I don't actually recommend installing a second internal HD if you > intend to use it primarily as a backup drive (to replace those infernal > ZIP disks). Internal ATA drives are slightly cheaper than an external > FireWire drive, but *much* less convenient for transferring files > between computers -- and for backups, an internal HD is inherently less > reliable than an external solution. Plus there's the hassle of > actually installing the drive and choosing the right jumper settings, > etc., whereas FireWire is plug and play. > > - Darcy > ----- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brooklyn, NY > > On 27 Jul 2004, at 05:17 PM, Javier Ruiz wrote: > >> Contact me off list if you need advice in how to do this. >> [I have 3 hard disks in my G4/733 for a total of 400 Gigabytes.] >> >> Count one euro per Gbyte . >> >> Javier >>> >>> johannes: >>>> What kind of Mac have you got? Does it have room for an extra HD? >>>> They are >>>> cheap these days. >>> >>> you mean to get one hard wired? i have a G4/400MHz/10G. >>> >>> jef >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
