On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 05:07 AM, Germain wrote:
> Hi, I have two internal HD on my old faithfull 7200/120. The original
> 1.2
> gig and a 2 gig that I bought used. Now I want more space. My options:
> an
> external HD or replacing one of the two internals. In both case, is
> there a
> maximum number of gig I must check for? In the case What is the benefit
> of
> going for an external HD? I often see in HD ads the number �7200�. What
> does
> it mean?
Don't get an external unless you know where you can get a good insulated
case to cut the noise down. Also the external SCSI on a PCI PowerMac is
slower that the internal IIRC. I'd replace the internal drive.
I don't think there is a limit on hard disk size unless you are using an
OS prior to 8.1, which was the first to support HFS+ which is critical
for formatting large volumes effectively.
One of my posts just before this discusses the ACARD SCSIDE bridge.
These alloy you to fit an ATA/IDE drive to the SCSI bus on any Mac. Read
that post for more info. Using one of these would allow you to buy a
low-cost ATA/100 drive and fit it instead of the more expensive and
small SCSI drives.
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