Any PB users with internal 7200rpm Hard Drive?

[Walter Biscardi]

You really don’t want to capture to any internal drive on the Powerbook as you really want your media on a completely seperate drive. If you run the OS, Applications and your Media off the same drive, even if you partition it, you’re going to have problems eventually with performance.

Better to add an external Firewire drive.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Ed Dooley]

I thought about it, but decided against it. Barefeats.com did a couple of reviews of 7,200RPM drives in PowerBooks:

https://www.barefeats.com/hard34.html

https://www.barefeats.com/fire39.html

Sure you can put a SATA drive in a FW case, but it needs to have a SATA interface for the drive, and FW outputs. Fwdepot.com and others make them. Don’t expect any kind of performance increase over IDE drives in a FW case though.

Ed

[Jimi] “I would like to hear from anyone that has upgraded their Powerbook G4 with a 7200rpm internal Drive.
Is the drive dependable? How are you using it? Do you capture to it? Any problems…heat, etc.

Also, is it possible to put a SATA Hard Drive in a firewire case and it use it with a G4?
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