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Offline Alex

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Power Mac G4 QuickSilver - internal SATA drives?
« on: November 24, 2015, 02:24:56 PM »
Hello

Is it possible to add SATA to this machine? I have one and would like to add some larger modern SATA drives. IDE seems to be expensive and usually limited to under 1TB.

Are there solutions?
—Alex

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Re: Power Mac G4 QuickSilver - internal SATA drives?
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2015, 02:29:05 PM »
Sonnet had a card that can add 2 sata ports internal and was os9 compatible.

Tempo sata or serial ata. Check on ebay

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Re: Power Mac G4 QuickSilver - internal SATA drives?
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2015, 08:37:46 AM »
Thanks a million.
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Re: Power Mac G4 QuickSilver - internal SATA drives?
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2015, 09:21:22 AM »
Alex,

we have many posts with all the details about SATA upgrades & cards, just check out the hardware section of the forum and search

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Re: Power Mac G4 QuickSilver - internal SATA drives?
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2015, 01:59:10 PM »
DieHard

Thank you! I will certainly have to poke around a lot more. I am only beginning to discover this forum, a very nice corner of the internet. Thanks again!!
—Alex