I agree about eventually moving the card to a newer machine, as I did transfer it from my S900 to my G4, and I prefer to buy upgrades that can be moved into future equipment, anyhow. I don't know about the difference between an ATA 66 & 133, in an older machine, as I've never compared them. I've upclocked the bus to 133 on the new(er) machine, so, no, there isn't any improvement in hard drive performance using the card. However, there is definitely a performance when you have more than one hard drive. With two drives on the same IDE controller, swapping files between the drives just trudges along. Having the two drives on separate controllers is much better. There are two IDE controllers in the Sawtooth. I have my 32x10x40x16DVD combo drive on one, my 7200RPM 60GB drive on the other, and the stock 20GB drive on the Tempo ATA 133, and it is so much better than having the two hard drives on one controller. I still have the second controller and connector on the card, should I ever need it. Of course, I wouldn't need to do this if I had a SCSI controller, as a SCSI drives can read and write at the same time, and SCSI controllers tend to handle the flow of information more efficiently, but IDE is generally more cost efficient, if you plan for much expansion. Good debate, tho.
-Antonio On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 12:37 AM, Will Schou wrote: > > 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 > -- 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
