128GB Limit Question

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Royal
Hi I have been trying to find the answer to this question, but to no avail. All G4s (and G3s for that matter) before the Mirror Drive Door suffer from the 128GB hard drive limit, but does my PowerMac G4 Sawtooth AGP Graphics have a maximum limit of 128GB or a maximum limit per drive of 128GB.

Re: 128GB Limit Question

2008-10-10 Thread Len Gerstel
On Oct 10, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Simon Royal wrote: Hi I have been trying to find the answer to this question, but to no avail. All G4s (and G3s for that matter) before the Mirror Drive Door suffer from the 128GB hard drive limit, but does my PowerMac G4 Sawtooth AGP Graphics have

Re: 128GB Limit Question

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Royal
Bruce So it would be wiser to put the two 7200RPM drives on the primary and the optical drive and third slower hard drive on the secondary. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User

Re: 128GB Limit Question

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Royal
Hi What's the best way to use this drive? Internally or via a firewire case? Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I

Re: 128GB Limit Question

2008-10-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Simon Royal wrote: Bruce So it would be wiser to put the two 7200RPM drives on the primary and the optical drive and third slower hard drive on the secondary. Yes. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group

Re: 128GB Limit Question

2008-10-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 10, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Simon Royal wrote: Hi What's the best way to use this drive? Internally or via a firewire case? It depends. Internal it's always there, and is probably faster throughput. Cheaper to install, too. External, you can always move it to another computer. --

Re: 128GB Limit Question

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Royal
Bruce I have had this drive sitting in a firewire case. I have never moved it to another Mac and if I need to access it from my laptop I usually just connect over the network. With this in mind it would probably be better to put internally so it is always there on my desktop and faster speed

Re: 128GB Limit Question

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Royal
Peter I was ready to go with it until you confused me. (Sorry it's late) So none of my drives are larger than 128GB. I would be putting 120GB and 20GB on the main IDE, so will this be fine. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... -

Re: 128GB Limit Question

2008-10-10 Thread PeterH
On Oct 10, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Simon Royal wrote: So none of my drives are larger than 128GB. I would be putting 120GB and 20GB on the main IDE, so will this be fine. Hmmm ... I read it as 160 GB, not 120 GB. 120 GB drives haven't been manufactured for the better part of a decade.

Re: 128GB Limit Question

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Royal
Peter Well I subscribe to the lower end of Macs. The AGP G4 was introduced nearly 10 years ago. Anyway. I have 3 hard drives. A 20GB (my boot drive) and a 120GB proposing to go on the primary IDE. I then have a DVD drive and 20GB proposing to go on the secondary IDE. This is where the 160GB

Re: 128GB Limit Question

2008-10-10 Thread PeterH
On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Simon Royal wrote: I have been trying to find the answer to this question, but to no avail. All G4s (and G3s for that matter) before the Mirror Drive Door suffer from the 128GB hard drive limit ... No, this limit was absolutely and finally removed with