On Aug 18, 2004, at 8:15 PM, Tom Baker wrote:
Thanks Bruce! Glad to hear that these drives and the card will work. Yes, the non-SATA versions are a little bit cheaper, but the sales blurb says that SATA hard drives can transfer data faster than the older ATA types, and from what little experience I have with iMovie and iDVD so far, it appears that every bit of speed helps when editing video (burning a video DVD literally takes HOURS, even with a G5 and twin processors).
The sales blurb also said if I drank the right beer, the Swedish Bikini Team would parachute in to party with me ;-)
Your system will be constrained by the bus speed. In a G5 with the high-speed PCIX slots and much higher bus speed, the SATA drives offer theoretically higher speeds, but in your system they'll go no faster than ATA drives.
Of course, maybe the processor in the G4-733 can't even keep up with the slower drives, for all I know--I was just going on the notion that with video the faster EVERYTHING operates the better.
Video processing is primarily CPU-bound. You have enough memory and will have enough drive space, but your CPU will continue to be the bottleneck here.
Besides, if I ever move up to a G5 tower, these newer SATA drives will pop right into it and run natively, and even when I install them in my old G4 they will eliminate any confusion about jumper settings, since SATAs apparently have no jumpers to set!
With the caveat that SATA drives are still only ATA drives with an adapter, this is a valid reason to go SATA. It depends on when you are looking to get that G5.
And anyone whose ever undertaken SCSI voodoo, couldn't possibly be scared of a little old master/Slave/Cable select setting could he? ;-)
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