What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs?

[Knezzen]

I payed 39 USD for this 128gb KingSpec SSD including shipping. Can't review it since I don't have SATA card in the MDD yet

I have a KingSpec PATA SSD (not DOM) in my TiBook and it has worked fine for the past year with more or less daily use, so I don't see any reason why this wont do in the MDD.

[IIO]

various SATA harddrives, optical drives and raid enclosures.

[MacOS Plus]

@Knezzen:  Would you be able to take a physical length measurement on your Ti card for me?  I want to know how long it is without the extra blank extension part of the PCB.

Sorry for the late reply.
Without the extension (end of components): 225mm
Full length of the card: 311mm

  Wow, it's much longer than I expected.  The limit in the Xserve is about 190mm, which is the length of the Radeon X800 in my other Xserve.  Even at that the tail of the card ducks under the air guide and over the edge of the CPU board.

  Thanks for that, though!  It's still good information for future reference.

[Mat]

The last things I got are an 128GB SSD, which works well inside my 9600 as the G4s. The other important thing for daily usage was my mechanical Cherry keyboard "MX-Board 3.0 Brown". It is a great keyboard, but I am still sad, that I have no possibility to switch the Command and the Alt keys internally (means by software - the matrix).

[ovalking]

Scrooge here hasn't bought anything for at least a couple of years. I'm better at rescuing kit from the skip

[iRolleder]

As you may have seen, my last purchase was a PowerBook G4 Titanium logic board with 867 MHz. It was about 20$ plus 26$ for shipping 

In the Future I may need to buy a SSD drive 

[Knezzen]

In the Future I may need to buy a SSD drive 

I have one in my TiBook. The best investment ever for it. Just a generic KingSpec PATA SSD from eBay. Has worked flawlessly for over a year now.

[iRolleder]

In the Future I may need to buy a SSD drive 

I have one in my TiBook. The best investment ever for it. Just a generic KingSpec PATA SSD from eBay. Has worked flawlessly for over a year now.

I replaced my hard drive now. Not with a SSD but with a 7200 RPM HDD (Seagate Momentous 7200.1) for about 50€. Maybe its not as fast as a SSD but its about twice as fast as the old 4600 RPM HDD.

[Knezzen]

Forgot that this thread exists...

Ironically the week after I got my new Sil3112 based card from max1zzz I stumbled upon a 64bit FirmTek SeriTek/1v4 on ebay. Got it for 75 euro plus shipping. It got shipped from Italy today, so I hope it arrives before next weekend

I wonder if the performance will be improved or if it's more or less the same (because of my slow and cheap SSD).

[DieHard]

Knez,


Please compare tests and post results after you check out the new card

[Knezzen]

Knez,


Please compare tests and post results after you check out the new card

Will do

[Protools5LEGuy]

I were waiting for the "summer payout" and I throwed the house thru the windows (spanish refrán for spending out all the sallary. 

I bought another MDD 867 dual for 50 bucks on october. (My 3rd G4 dual)

Years ago I bought (by mistake) an Seritek 2SE4 (for Tiger and up  ). I just ordered the eSATA to SATA cables to test it.

Also ordered last week 2 ATA to SATA converters. I've run out enough > 40Gig 7200rpm  drives for my G4 farm and my hackintosh is refusing < 1 Tb drives, so some 500 gig drives would go to my PowerPC hardware.

The 4th thing is an Original M-Box (My 4th PowerPC Protools LE system after 2 001 and a AM III) that I got last week on eBay for 15 pounds. It will be shared between my "new" MDD and my GMA950 HackBook with 10.5.8 and 10.6.8.

I plan to use the new MDD with the Sonorus STUDI/O in a Mac OS 9 boot, but really curious about how a M-Box&Leopard with the Seritek 2SE4, Protools 8.0.1 and Logic 9.0.2 performs just because I never had PowerPC DAWs past Panther or PowerPC Protools LE > 6.4

[Protools5LEGuy]

I plan to use the new MDD with the Sonorus STUDI/O in a Mac OS 9 boot, but really curious about how a M-Box&Leopard with the Seritek 2SE4, Protools 8.0.1 and Logic 9.0.2 performs just because I never had PowerPC DAWs past Panther or PowerPC Protools LE > 6.4

Never tried Logic > 7 on PowerPC too

The SATA approach will step-up my G4 farm

[mrhappy]

I throwed the house thru the windows

I like that... and I'm quite familiar with the procedure!!

[s0s]

A 256KB cache module for my 7200/90 Power Mac.

[Miro Le Ravi]

 
HA HA 
 IT S TRUE   
 that we don't continue to buy things for 
but  isn't it a good thing? 
  a spare pci 324 motu in case of pb   
 have bought  another  g4 in spare  in case  also 
(that works  a little bit every week  to be sure 
and  i m searching  for a second  miditimepiece  in spare  in case also 
and probably if i see motu interface   2408 or 1224  i will continue to buy them  because  they sound better than  the last  motu interface   
sorry to say it 
but it s true
it sounds terrible  the rme  and the motu  1224 and the metric halo  2882  sounds  musical  and natural
i bought also  a dp 9  for the macbook pro  i use just for mastering and sending by internet the job

[torvan]

Hmmm, that would be a Sonnet Serial ATA adapter and two SATA drives (each 500GB).

Pulling out of the case would be a Sonnet SCSI adapter and two SCSI drives. Man that MDD is way more quiet now.

[DieHard]

...and probably if i see motu interface   2408 or 1224  i will continue to buy them  because  they sound better than  the last  motu interface, sorry to say it, but it s true

As I have also stated Here
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,671.msg2010.html#msg2010

The converters in the 1224 are unique and very musical and warm compared to other older Motu units;  My 2004 "Live Rack" consisted on a QS G4 with (3) 1224 since I got slightly better Bass response and fatter drums than using the 24i (which is my 2nd favorite sounding)

[MusicWorks]

An A-HARD 66 pci card for my Yikes! G4

By the way, I love this thread

[TheDailyBuzzherd]

Kinda funny our computers are better made than our cars and are disposable far more quickly.

Just bought a 250mg Zip Drive ( yeah, I know ) to replace the 100megger that burned out his capacitor.

Two years ago me bought a 3T FW Fantom for backup/creation.

Yesterday gave me another 1T from Fantom to backup the 3T. I know; sounds backwards. "Forward, into The Past".

Not smelling smoke yet, so all's well.