On Aug 5, 2005, at 10:38 AM, Joy Freeman wrote:
I need more hard drive space for my blue & white G3. Since it is a
revision
1 G3, I can't just plop another IDE drive in there. The xlr8yourmac
site has
lots of information and advice--so much, really, that it's
overwhelming--and
they do have instructions for adding a slave IDE drive, but they
strongly
suggest that to do so, an IDE PCI card needs to be installed. So if
I'm
going to have to add a card, I may as well add a SCSI card, right?
No. ATA drives are just as fast (you're bound by the 66Mhz bus speed
in the B&W anyway) and vastly cheaper and far less fiddly.
get a controller from someplace like Other World Computing <http://
eshop.macsales.com/item/SIIG/SCMP4A12/> and another big HDD and
you're good to go.
Then get that drive on sale at Frys, and you've got a setup for <
$200 that you would have to pay well near $1000 or more for in SCSI.
--
Bruce Johnson
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