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[supernova777]

what was their oem brand of choice?
hard drives back then were not the best..
but they must have had the one up on disk speed..
i mean it is a crucial part of computing.. and performance

[Protools5LEGuy]

My G4 DA 466 came with Maxtor 5400 rpm drive and Rage 128 Pro ADC.

My MDD 866 dual came with deathstar deskstar

My G5 2.x dual came with Maxtor SATA

[Ed Redfern]

from my experience not only as an apple owner but registered as a repair agent, I've known requests for specific drives to be loaded, generally speaking most drives for G4 desktops were maxtors, g3's and below tended to be IBM classic drives or early deskstars. after G4's, the server versions went for the more expensive raptor professional series which had upgraded buffer rates and longer performance cycles, after all, servers running 24/7 can't afford downtime. I've worked with a client's G4 MDD loaded with 5 SCSI SCA80 146gb units. the only IDE device running was the  burner. the SCSI side of things was absolutely stunning but he had to completely mod the machine to quieten it. I was amazed at what had been done.  acoustic wall treatments, fan replacements, the lot. I was envious of his setup. what made it more entertaining was his transportation of said g4 mdd a dual 1.42ghz overclocked further with top end GPU. stored in a custom flight case with power protection and a cooling system to keep the entire inner case and machine cool. wow.

[mrhappy]

That sounds like a pretty 'fancy' set up there Ed!!

[Ed Redfern]

I have a nack for customising macs, call it a passion for vintage meets RAW POWER (grunts whilst saying this)

I've not done much of this for a while though, so could do with the excuse hehehehe.

[mrhappy]

I THINK my G4 400 came with a 'Quantum' ?

G4 500dp had a IBM 'Deskstar' that I think was original.

[Ed Redfern]

was speaking to a friend of mine who's with apple USA and our discussion pulled up the fact that depending on the machines in question and requirements, they were weighed up againsta available hard drives. some cases it was to do with if a disk performed at it's best, they used that with certain batches, like you'd see a difference between an iMac g3 and a powermac G3 or a workgroup server, etc.