>Thanks aqua. :oP So would you suggest a B&W 450 or a G4 (AGP) 350? What
>about the "disk subsystem" holds you back? Also, I wanted to get a
>10,000rpm scsi drive. Which machine would be better for a drive like this?
>(this also means that the fact that the B&W only has ATA/33 isn't really a
>big deal)
Thats a tough call. The G3/450 will be faster on Classic OS9. I'm
not sure about OSX though. The G4 will kick the G3 in anything
AltiVec enabled, but it will really lag behind with other stuff
Basically for me, the slowest thing is the disk. Moving stuff
around, copying etc. I have 768MB RAM (supposed to be a gig, but
they sent me an 8x256 instead of a 16x128) and I use most of it.
I'll have some programs crunching statistics while doing web design
at the same time and downloading. With ATA this becomes a serious
problem. My SCSI was much nicer than this ATA I'm forced to use now,
even though it was a crippled SCSI drive (only 384k cache).
What card are you thinking of driving the 10k drive with? Will you
go Ultra160 or just hit Ultra2Wide. U2W is much cheaper now.
Peace
Aqua
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