Hi,
I am about to do a mass drive update for a couple of imacs (g3/400DV and
g3/350) and our yikes (g4/400).
I will be adding 7200rpm drives with 8mb disk cache. The apple spec for the
g4 says that the drive interface is Internal HD interface = ultraATA-33. Can
I run a drive which has IDE Ultra ATA/100 or am I just worth looking at IDE
ATA drives?
Any ATA drive will work on any ATA bus (excluding Serial ATA unless you have an intermediate board to convert the signal). Thusly an ATA-133 drive will work on an ATA-33 bus perfectly. I also have an ATA-100 Seagate running in my G3/400 which is the same architecture as the Yikes! Only thing is that pre-ATA-133 buses can't read drives bigger than 128MB (137MB).
Basically a choice between:
1. 40Gb Western Digital (WD400JB) ATA-100 (7200rpm, 8MB Cache, 8.5ms) Quiet
Drive Technology 3Yr
2. 60Gb Western Digital (WD600JB) ATA-100 (7200rpm, 8MB Cache, 8.5ms) Quiet
Drive Technology 3Yr
Also could I run a ATA-133 as theres a lot more of those about.
I would personally recommend Seagate Barracuda 7200.x series drives. They are not the fastest (which is unlikely to be an issue as any ATA133 drive will saturate ATA33) but are the quietest and tend to dump heat better than competing drives. I am a big fan of Seagate, they have proven very reliable in my personal experience. I'm glad to say even though I didn't fit it, even my iMac has one in :).
Hopefully this upgrade should speed osX up a bit.
Defienitely give you a slight improvement - my G3 had its (god awful) stock 12GB Maxtor ATA33 drive in when i got it and it was noticably slower than the Seagate that is in it now.
Maxing out the RAM is always a good one for boosting OS X speed - RAM should be cheap for all those machines. IIRC the iMacs will take 512MB max (SO-DIMMs?) and the G4 will take 1GB (4x256MB). Aside from that, a CPU or in the G4 a graphics upgrade is the only other sure-fire booster.
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