I have a 15k U320 SCSI drive booting my system now, whereas before I had
the slower of the two IDE drives in that position. The computer is
definitely more responsive now. Applications open faster and documents
save faster. Overall boot up time from being turned on isn't much
different, but when the computer is on and I am just logging in my
desktop appears faster.
I do not have a comparison between the SCSI drive and the faster of the
two IDE drives at the moment. I am thinking of putting another fast IDE
drive in here and cloning my old system drive onto it and then swapping
them. That would make for a better comparison.
As for YouTube, I have a question about that -
How much difference does the video card make in playing Flash stuff? I
used to have a Beige G3 with Panther on it and a Radeon 9200 PCI video
card. You could easily watch DVD movies on it, but YouTube was
sketchy. This MDD has a 9800 Pro. YouTube works fine unless it is
large HD video. Sharing a desktop in Skype is horrible. That makes
me wonder if Skype uses the video card at all. And it makes me wonder
how much Flash even uses a video card.
Bruce
Nestamicky wrote:
On 15/11/11 8:21 AM, Bruce Godfrey wrote:
dc, do you have any data on how much difference a fast SCSI drive makes
in a MDD or similar G$ Mac? I just installed one and I have used Disk
Speed Bench X to test the transfer speed. I find 80MB/sec. My original
IDE Hitachi Deskstar on the ATA100 bus is only moving about 50MB/sec.
However, another WD drive on the same ATA 100 bus is also moving
80MB/sec.
I was hoping the 15K U320 SCSI drive would easily beat a good IDE drive,
but that does not appear to be the case. Is it maybe the kind of test
Disk Speed Bench X performs?
Bruce, I wished you'd seen my thread here on getting the most out of a
G4. In there I'd proposed using SCSI disks and I think it was pharmacy
Bruce who pointed out that I won't be getting much out of it.
I think I'm known here as one of the dinosaurs who refuse to buy newer
and better machines simply, for example, to be able to watch YouTube
videos. So, I've come to accept that my macs are being "programmed"
out of some websites and applications, and have stopped trying to
"deprogram" them. I reckon there will come a time when text edit would
be the champ on a G4, if I want to stay with OS X.
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