if it was my oldschool powermac 9600/9500 i would get any ATA-133 card.. and a sata/ide adapter.. and a brand new 80gb sata drive which costs about 15$ at my local store now.. so cheap! but its a SATA3 hard drive. brand new. made in the last few months (yes 2014!) the combination of new disk performance with trusted compatibility of the ata-133 = win!
ssd are faster for read.... so better to use a ssd for the boot drive..
new sata3 hd's built recently are crazy fast for reading + writing.. when compared to even 2005 hard drives..
(its almost 10 years of practice inbetween the manufacturers have had)
i would do this..
1 x acard 6880m raid adapter pci 32bits..(which provide 4 ports)
4 x sata/ide converters (@ $2-3 each off ebay, just to have them around to allow for any possible config)
2 x ata/133 ide cables (with master/slave connections for 2 drives each)
4 x molex power splitter (in case you need them)
port 1: SSD boot drive (kingspec 32gb would do nice or 64gb SSD like a samsung or ocz.. any brand)
port 2: [recording audio drive] - new sata3 hd 500gb
port 3 & 4 : two drives in raid1 - providing fast loading of project files/samples AND safety at the same time!
(2 copies of the data to share the read-load so read speed is doubled)
another possible config could be
port1:SSD boot drive
port2:backup mirror of port 1 (1&2 ports in raid1 for safety)
port3: [recording drive] new sata3 hd 500gb
port4: connected to sata dvd via sata/ide adapter
(maybe one of these new dvd drives that mactron posted about)
or u could use a raid1 for your audio record drive for safety..
anyway just some ideas
but maybe this would be best config:
port 1: SSD boot drive
port 2: cd/DVD
port 3 & 4 : two drives in raid1 - providing fast loading of project files/samples AND safety at the same time!
(2 copies of the data to share the read-load so read speed is doubled)
im pretty sure that a new sata cd/dvd will be able to read discs faster then ata-33 speed..
im not even sure. does these old 600 series cpu powerpc have ata-33 bus?
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac/specs/powermac_9600_300.htmlthis makes no mention of ata-33 or ata-66 so u must need ATA/SATA to even have a cd?
or else u would be using what.. a scsi oldschool crappy cd? no way!!