Just installed a 60gb SSD in a 12" powerbook 867

[Steve_W]

Followed this guide, worked a treat!

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/PowerBook+G4+Aluminum+12-Inch+867+MHz+Hard+Drive+Replacement/208

I'll be dual booting with OS X 10.4.11 & 9.2.2 as I use some OS X apps on this.

Love it when a plan comes together!

[iRolleder]

Hey, can you post some xbench results for the SSD, so that we can see wich effect this upgrade has? Thanks a lot.

[cyberish]

Nice. You put a PATA SSD into your Powerbook?

[Knezzen]

Here are some benchmarks of the original 4200rpm drive in my TiBook compared with the KingSpec PATA SSD I replaced it with. Made with Quickbench in 9.2.2.

Scroll down a coupe of posts to get to the SSD results.
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,1658.msg13623.html#msg13623

[VMS]

Here are some benchmarks of the original 4200rpm drive in my TiBook compared with the KingSpec PATA SSD I replaced it with. Made with Quickbench in 9.2.2.

Scroll down a coupe of posts to get to the SSD results.
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,1658.msg13623.html#msg13623

50MB/s is a bit slow for a SSD....

[Knezzen]

50MB/s is a bit slow for a SSD....

57mb/s is still very close to the theoretical 66mb/s top speed of the ATA66 controller inside the TiBook.
The SSD is not the bottleneck, the system architecture is. So this is the fastest you will ever go with this system

Still 3 times faster than a mechanical drive for less money, and a mechanical drive can never beat the 0.2ms accesstime of the SSD (more like 7-10ms) which is where the majority of the speed "feeling" lies.

[VMS]

50MB/s is a bit slow for a SSD....

57mb/s is still very close to the theoretical 66mb/s top speed of the ATA66 controller inside the TiBook.
The SSD is not the bottleneck, the system architecture is. So this is the fastest you will ever go with this system

Still 3 times faster than a mechanical drive for less money, and a mechanical drive can never beat the 0.2ms accesstime of the SSD (more like 7-10ms) which is where the majority of the speed "feeling" lies.

ah my bad
I thought that's ATA100

[Jakl]

50MB/s is a bit slow for a SSD....

57mb/s is still very close to the theoretical 66mb/s top speed of the ATA66 controller inside the TiBook.
The SSD is not the bottleneck, the system architecture is. So this is the fastest you will ever go with this system

Still 3 times faster than a mechanical drive for less money, and a mechanical drive can never beat the 0.2ms accesstime of the SSD (more like 7-10ms) which is where the majority of the speed "feeling" lies.

Isn't there another option to get a type I or II PC card from seritek and use external Sata for it as well? Not sure what the speeds would be - do you think they'd be capped out at 57m/s because of system architecture?

[Knezzen]

It will probably be capped to the maximum speed of the PC card slot.
Don't know what speed that is thought.

EDIT: Theoretical top speed of the PC-Card slot is 133mb/s. The rest of the system architecture needs to be able to cope with these speeds as well, though.