I have 2 western digital 120GB HD's..nice and quiet. Both are teh WD1200JB "special edition" with 8MB cache. <a href="http://www.newegg.com"; target="_blank">www.newegg.com</a> has them for $159 with free shipping.
WD WESTERN DIGITAL "SPECIAL EDITION" 120GB 7200RPM EIDE HARD DRIVE MODEL # WD1200JB - OEM, DRIVE ONLY
I am also thinking of adding a second drive. Should I install it on the ATA 66 bus by itself or with the factory drive on the ATA 100 bus. (I have a new G4 DDR)
<strong>Why on the 66? Does the 100 have 2 inputs? I would hook it up there...</strong><hr></blockquote>
I couldn't get MacOS9 to boot from the 100 bus. Adding my old drive to the 66 bus and booting into OS 9was no problem. But the System does not see the partitions on the main drive (on the 100 bus).
<strong>Question, the Seagate harddrive that came with my Powermac has a 2mb buffer and 9.5 ms avg seek time.
The Western Digital 120 Special Edition Harddrive has a 8mb buffer and 8.9 ms seek time.
Both spin at 7200, should I assume that the Western Digital would be quite a bit faster?
If it is then isn't it a good idea to make it the Master Harddrive and the Seagate the slave?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes the WD drive will be much faster. Not only does it have the larger buffer, but also probably has higher data density:
Same spin speed + higer data density = faster data transfer rates
No, making the WD a master won't make it run any faster. What you should do, however is make the WD drive your boot drive. That way your startup and all system related disc access will utilize the faster WD drive.
<a href="http://www.storagereview.com"; target="_blank">Storage Review</a> has great hard drive comparisions. They determined that the WD SE drivers are as fast as high end SCSI drives for nonserver applications. In other words, it's a great drive.
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WD WESTERN DIGITAL "SPECIAL EDITION" 120GB 7200RPM EIDE HARD DRIVE MODEL # WD1200JB - OEM, DRIVE ONLY
Specifications:
Size: 120 Gigabytes
Interface: IDE ULTRA ATA100
Seek time: 8.9ms
RPM:7200
Cache 8MB
OEM(Drive alone) 3 Year Manufacturer Warranty
Kenneth
Now that I know what to get,, can you tell me exactly how I'd go about installing it? Which cable goes to where.
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I can take pics of mine if you want..and post tomorrow.
[ 09-22-2002: Message edited by: TOOL ]</p>
Here are some crummy pics of the cable connections..it's really easy.
The bus speed would be split between the two drives then. So you would have two ATA 50 buses instead of one 100 and one 66 (I believe).
The Western Digital 120 Special Edition Harddrive has a 8mb buffer and 8.9 ms seek time.
Both spin at 7200, should I assume that the Western Digital would be quite a bit faster?
If it is then isn't it a good idea to make it the Master Harddrive and the Seagate the slave?
<strong>Why on the 66? Does the 100 have 2 inputs? I would hook it up there...</strong><hr></blockquote>
I couldn't get MacOS9 to boot from the 100 bus. Adding my old drive to the 66 bus and booting into OS 9was no problem. But the System does not see the partitions on the main drive (on the 100 bus).
<strong>Question, the Seagate harddrive that came with my Powermac has a 2mb buffer and 9.5 ms avg seek time.
The Western Digital 120 Special Edition Harddrive has a 8mb buffer and 8.9 ms seek time.
Both spin at 7200, should I assume that the Western Digital would be quite a bit faster?
If it is then isn't it a good idea to make it the Master Harddrive and the Seagate the slave?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes the WD drive will be much faster. Not only does it have the larger buffer, but also probably has higher data density:
Same spin speed + higer data density = faster data transfer rates
No, making the WD a master won't make it run any faster. What you should do, however is make the WD drive your boot drive. That way your startup and all system related disc access will utilize the faster WD drive.
<a href="http://www.storagereview.com"; target="_blank">Storage Review</a> has great hard drive comparisions. They determined that the WD SE drivers are as fast as high end SCSI drives for nonserver applications. In other words, it's a great drive.
I don't mean to sound ignorant but can you explain what the difference is between Master and Boot drive?
I thought by making the WD the Master drive, it would be the boot drive, please explain the difference.
Also if you can tell me how I make it the boot drive (jumper settings) I'd appreciate it.
(dygysy=blang, changed my name to dygysy on office computer)