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Retrotek
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on: January 24, 2008, 19:28
I've got a really nice condition PowerMac 9600/350 that I just put a fresh install of Mac OS 7.6.1 into and am updating as per this website's suggestions (thank you!). I am considering a new larger hard drive because, though the original is probably big enough at 4GB, it is 10 years old. What are my options? Any recommendations would be appreciated. Should I consider an IDE drive if possible? What about a Solid State Drive? I've got one in my 3400c and it seems to be working fine (it's a CF card in an Addonics CF/IDE adapter). Thank you! Carl |
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Minimalist
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128 MB Posts: 186
Reply #1 on: January 24, 2008, 20:17
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If you have a decent ethernet card in your 9600, you might want to consider using a file server. I use an old PC running Linux as a file and print server for my Macs. My Quadra 700, for example, has an internal 1GB SCSI hard drive for regular use. This hard drive contains the System software, my regularly used applications, and a few data files. There's also an external 9GB SCSI drive attached that I use for backups. I keep about three months worth of backups on the external drive and move the older backup archives to an ethernet attached file server to free up space for more recent backups. Files that need to be shared between my Macs are stored on the Linux file server. This gives me a lot more flexibility as far as storage capacity goes as I can cheaply and easily add terabytes of space to my Linux based file server. The other benefit of this is that I don't have to maintain redundant copies of files on each Mac nor am I required to have more than one Mac powered up at a time. It works quite well and is really efficient.
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russman
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Reply #2 on: January 27, 2008, 05:52
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Well, your best option would be to look for a newer drive, but i don't think a solid state drive would be a very good idea because for a desktop computer you need something that will stand up to heavy use, flash cards really aren't meant to be used as a primary storage device, and definately will not hold up under vurtual memory (constant reading and writing).
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russman
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8 MB Posts: 12
Reply #3 on: January 27, 2008, 05:53
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Well, your best option would be to look for a newer drive, but i don't think a solid state drive would be a very good idea because for a desktop computer you need something that will stand up to heavy use, flash cards really aren't meant to be used as a primary storage device, and definately will not hold up under vurtual memory (constant reading and writing).
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