On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 04:50 PM, Antonio Malcolm wrote: > A good way to speed up OS X on that machine, or any machine with a bus > speed of less than 100mhz, is to add an ATA 133 PCI card, with an ATA > 133 hard drive. Either that or Fast SCSI II. I cannot stress enough > what a huge difference fast hard drives on a fast bus make in running, > not only OS X, but any OS. Moving media creates the biggest bottleneck > in any system, even the newer systems. > > -Antonio >
You are correct that most machines will get a nice speed burst with a new hard drive especially if they are still using the old drives that came with the machines. However in an old World mac /PCI Mac you will see no difference in hard drive speed between the ATA 66mhz and 133mhz cards nor those in between (100mhz ATA cards) That is because none of the currently available hard drives no matter the rating runs faster then apox 32-34 mb sec in these machines. So no need to speed extra money for a faster ATA card unless you plan of using it in a newer machine in the future. The speed ratings of the cards seem to be market driven rather then anything meaningful with older machines. I'm not sure the newer machines would need these cards. Will S -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
