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radweb
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on: January 12, 2007, 08:20
Have any of you ever heard of this product? http://afterthemac.com/product.php?id=5050 It says it works with System 7.5.3-OS X Tiger. I need to upgrade the hard drive on my PowerMac 7300 because the current 2GB drive makes a lot of clicking and whirling sounds whenever it spins up--sounds like it's on its last legs. I would like a larger drive and 50GB sounds nice, although I've read that System 7 has some problems with larger drives. Is this a good idea or should I just go with a 2 or 4 GB drive off ebay? |
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dpaanlka
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Reply #1 on: January 12, 2007, 10:22
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System 7 doesn't have any "problems" with large drives (they work perfectly with them and I've used drives up to 40gb in size, soon will be trying much larger SATA drives). I've only used large drives with Mac OS 7.6.x though, never 7.5.x. System 7 does not make the best use of the drives though, which is why HFS+ was introduced with Mac OS 8.1. It is probably the biggest drawback of 7.6.1, and users have to decide whether or not System 7's benefits outweigh this disk inefficiency (most users here have decided that it does). The disk inefficiency doesn't really hurt people with 2gb drives or less, but over 4gb it really starts to kick in, and by 40gb you have a minimum file sizes of several hundred kilobytes if I recall. Currently my largest drive in a System 7 machine is the 10gb SCSI drive in the Power Macintosh 8100 server that hosts this web site. I have not seen any reason to be concerned with it, and it works perfectly.
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #2 on: January 12, 2007, 14:40
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Quote from: "radweb" Have any of you ever heard of this product? The drive is an 80pin SCA drive with a 50 pin adaptor. Generally those work fine in SCSI Macs. The drives are probably as fast as they say, but remember that you are limited to the speed of the SCSI built into the Mac. The only issue I have seen with converted SCA drives is that they are difficult to reliably terminate when used as internal drives. They work best if they are placed in the middle of the SCSI chain. Placing them in and external case and using and external terminator works fine as well. bill
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bd1308
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128 MB Posts: 198 
Reply #3 on: January 18, 2007, 00:41
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even 160GB drive works, but man are the minimum file sizes huge.
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