On Jul 26, 9:24 pm, Richard Gerome <onecoolka...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I am still sort of confused here between SATA and PATA and the SATA PCI card
> does this card go with the SATA HD even after everyones input??? Or does this
> have something to do with adding more HD's??? I don't think she will ever
> have a reason to add more drives if I buy a 500g HD and partition it or for
> that matter I think the 120g would still be plenty big enough and not
> Partitioning it...
Rich - you have a G4. It has connections for PATA drives. I've not
seen 750GB PATAs in the wild, only as high as 500GB. The 500GB PATA
goes for ~$90 or so from what I've seen and last price paid.
You have a PCI slot in there, and can add a PCI card that handles SATA
("A SATA PCI card") this one -
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/TSATA/
It will let you add 2 SATA Drives instead of two PATA Drives. I happen
to want some storage and last buy was $80/1.5TB. I bought two. So 3TB
for $160 plus card (ebay/$50)
I hope this helped.
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