hard drive speed
sooooo....i'm looking to buy a giant hard drive for my b&w...wait, i'm going to interrupt my post. i took the plunge and got a computer capable of os x! as some of you may remember, i was running 8.6 on my powermac 6500 for some time...i found a b&w 350mhz for $200, overclocked it to 400mhz and put os x on it. os x is quite cool, not as sluggish as i was expecting, though certainly not as responsive as 9. Do i like it better than 9? That's tough, it's different, not better or worse IMO...i should stay where the new mac software is though, right? Anyhow, now that i've moved from 1995 to 1999, i'm wanting to put a whopping hard drive in my B&W. It is a rev. 1, so i'll have to do an external firewire drive because of the lame IDE controller on board of the B&W rev1 logic board. I'm thinking of getting a bare IDE drive and a FW encolsure, should be cheaper.
now, BACK to my question We've got hard drives with 8mb caches and 2mb caches plus a few diff. brand to choose from. I see some benchmarks showing differences, but will there be any noticeable differences on my b&w between the drives? I'd like to get a 120gb drive, and can't decide between the 2mb and 8mb caches. What does that mean, anyway? Plus, will it slow anything down to use firewire rather than keeping it internal. As fast as FW is, i doubt it. Any info is appreciated!
now, BACK to my question We've got hard drives with 8mb caches and 2mb caches plus a few diff. brand to choose from. I see some benchmarks showing differences, but will there be any noticeable differences on my b&w between the drives? I'd like to get a 120gb drive, and can't decide between the 2mb and 8mb caches. What does that mean, anyway? Plus, will it slow anything down to use firewire rather than keeping it internal. As fast as FW is, i doubt it. Any info is appreciated!
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Big drives give sweet throughput. However, you can't just pop in the largest drive you can find. You have to find out what the largest drive your ATA controller will support is. There's a limit to how big a drive ATA 66 or whatever can handle. If you exceed that limit, your computer will not 'see' the extra space (If the drive works at all).
Originally posted by 1337_5L4Xx0R
Big drives give sweet throughput. However, you can't just pop in the largest drive you can find. You have to find out what the largest drive your ATA controller will support is. There's a limit to how big a drive ATA 66 or whatever can handle. If you exceed that limit, your computer will not 'see' the extra space (If the drive works at all).
is this still relevent since i will be using firewire? regardless, i'll check out some compatibility ratings on XLR8