[OT] Mac PPC and USB2 ?

[stephen barncard]

Hi Richmond,

Regardless the PATA standard is dead for new manufacture and very few are
made anymore. I can't find them in the cavernous big box stores in
California at all.  The sick thing is if you can find 750's on ebay and
Amazon they cost more than today's modern SATA (and probaby not as
reliable).

 If one wants to continue using  G4s and other older machines, it's cheaper
just getting a inexpensive SATA card. On ebay all the prices I saw for 750's
was over $185 US.
In the big box stores, the 1.5 gig are coming down, quickly and the new
price/performance is now going to the 2.0 gig drives, and the 1.5TB drives
could go for less than $100 soon, if not now.

again, Tiger Direct has one for $24 - not sure of the compat or drivers but
this shows that these devices are out there.  A lot of this PC-only stuff
just runs. Some of it doesn't.

 Tiger has a live chat that might even work. Pretty impressive computer gear
store. They've come a long way from their 'cheesy electronic gadget' days.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3501402&CatId=1455



I wonder why, as well as having 4 external USB2 ports it has 2 internal
ones:
I'd be hard-put to squeeze anything else inside my G4; although a second fan
(err??? possibly connected to an internal USB port) might not be a bad
thing.


PCs often have bigger boxes and SIX slots.
Don't forget there's a little area for a floppy or second CD drive in some
G4s.


On 9 June 2010 11:37, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/09/2010 09:28 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
>
>> There are no PATA drives over 500 gig. The technology shifted after that
>> point.
>>
>>
>
> That is NOT true; I have a 750 PATA (IDE/ATA) drive in my G4; ordered it
> through Amazon.uk about 2 years ago.
>
> It seems hard to obtain PATA drives nowadays; this is sad as I have about
> 5 perfectly serviceable Pentium 4s lying around that, with decent size hard
> drives
> (i.e. not the 20 GB ones they currently have) could be 'thrown' at quite a
> few
> of my pupils for the cost of a PATA drive (80-160 GB) and Mint XFCE; for
> which
> they would be very happy.
>
>
>  Yeah, old G4s. I have a bunch of them. I know. G4s kinda like Tiger but
>> they
>> really don't like Leopard. Some of the later ones (as well as my G5 ) have
>> these giant processor sections with liquid cooling and outside pipes that
>> look like miniatures of the first hydrogen bomb.
>>
>> TIGER DIRECT has a cheap ($14) USB card that seems to be rated for Mac and
>> has good reviews
>>
>>
>> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4143850&csid=_25
>>
>>
>>
>
> Thank you very much for the link.
>
> I wonder why, as well as having 4 external USB2 ports it has 2 internal
> ones:
> I'd be hard-put to squeeze anything else inside my G4; although a second
> fan
> (err??? possibly connected to an internal USB port) might not be a bad
> thing.
>
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Stephen Barncard
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