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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Hardware => Storage => Topic started by: supernova777 on September 20, 2014, 10:16:00 AM

Title: original hard drive sizes issued with g3/g4 computers
Post by: supernova777 on September 20, 2014, 10:16:00 AM

a tidbit of info, often overlooked (by myself + probably others)
heres an interesting quick look at the size of the hdds that first shipped with the g3s + g4s

g3 B&W | 9gb
sawtooth | 20gb, 27gb
quicksilver 867 | 60gb
quicksilver 933 | 60gb
mdd DP 867 | 60gb
mdd 1.25 2003 | 80gb

source: everymac.com

Title: Re: original hard drive sizes issued with g3/g4 computers
Post by: Jakl on September 20, 2014, 12:54:33 PM

A B/W g3 400mhz I got in '99 had a 6gig pata HD.
There were some B/W g3s that had 9gb scsi's I think -
which ran at 450Mhz.
Check?

Title: Re: original hard drive sizes issued with g3/g4 computers
Post by: supernova777 on April 14, 2015, 09:06:39 PM

this just reinforces that its easy to use a fast Compact flash with ide adapter...
with any 8gb or 16gb .. obviously there are larger sizes but they get so expensive that u might aswell buy an ide-ssd...

if u use a 8gb compact flash for your boot drive u can always use removable media
such as firewire drives.. network drives... esata drives (For those of us with sata pci adapters)

8gb compact flash is cheap..! although getting harder to find as the manufacturers focus on higher volume sizes

i hope to provide some benchmarks with quickbench on the use of compact flash + sd cards as ide drives very soon!