Topic: What's the last thing you bought for your PowerPC Macs? (Read 109186 times)

IIO · « **Reply #60 on:** October 26, 2019, 05:05:30 AM »

got a third unit of these today - finally - they are hard to find in good condition.

my aim is to find 6 some day.

DieHard · « **Reply #61 on:** October 28, 2019, 12:28:43 PM »

What model are those ?

IIO · « **Reply #62 on:** October 28, 2019, 04:00:36 PM »

ha, just found number 4 - via image search - it was a german ebay ad which just said "HDD Case"

there are about 20 different models from various brands with that name. some of them have a black finishing.

mine are the pleiades taurus raid, which are identical to the inxtron branded (i think inxtron is the actual manufacturer)

the later models, called taurus super-S3 or tarus super LCM, had an LCD diplay and restore knobs on the front. they are available in stocks of hundreds and for much less money than the old taurus.

but the later models do not support JBOD, so that you would be limited to 2x1 TB spanning, which would make such a dual enclosure kind of useless under MacOS9 and OSX 10.4.x

i prefer to have 2x 1.5TB everywhere and as you know, 2x 2 would also work.

i also want to have the very same power adapter everywhere because t his stuff sucks so much to find and replace when one breaks & i already got new firewire2SATA optical cases for my "sampling CD" and bluray drive for that purpose.

...

after i am done with finding number 5 and number 6 my total storage space will have raised from 21 to 33 TB.

currently i am looking to find an affordable firewire 400 8-port hub, buspowered (arent they all?), which seems almost impossible to find. atm i have a very nice one with 5-ports (10 euro) but i feel i want to have a replacement in the house for such an important component

DieHard · « **Reply #63 on:** October 29, 2019, 08:24:12 AM »

From the original picture, I thought they were for 2.5" drives, bit I realize now they are for desktop SATA drives, and I am guessing the dip switch model is better for some since it does mirroring; manual
https://www.inxtron.com/files/manual/taurusraid_en.pdf

They look very well built in the manual, so I am sure they are an excellent choice.

For my Newer Mac Pro Video and Audio units, I have standardized on the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MED3ER0GB/

Also uses 3.5", I put a cheap eSata PCIe card in each Mac Pro (about $25) and nothing compares in the speed category.

For OS9, you know I am a fan of the FW400/800 version of the Mercury Elite Pro Dual mini which takes Laptop 2.5" drives
The link below is the NEWER version w/o FW, but case is the same
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MEMDC2SSD0.5/

For those new to the forum, we go into a lot of detail about FW400/FW800 external RAID solutions in our "greatest hits" link below:

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,4545

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,774

IIO · « **Reply #64 on:** October 29, 2019, 12:54:08 PM »

the OWC stuff is good too, also the G3(?) alu cases mostly look nice. but buying things new from OWC from europe meant + USD 40 shipping in the past. so you didnt do it.

mine have a great controller and they also have models with usb only - and a NAS. one later series already came with esata (quad interface)

i dont use raid modes at all, but i think it is good to have all these features ready.

what is not so good with the taurus series is the power adaptors. i replaced them with unbranded 60 watt adapters, they hopefully last a while.

IIO · « **Reply #65 on:** October 29, 2019, 12:54:53 PM »

i could use another video card. where could i buy a 9200 or 9500 pci?

Protools5LEGuy · « **Reply #66 on:** November 01, 2019, 10:20:56 AM »

Just bought an Mac Pro 1.1 to have all my PowerPC machines file served and unified

mrhappy · « **Reply #67 on:** November 02, 2019, 07:58:22 AM »

Quote from: Protools5LEGuy on November 01, 2019, 10:20:56 AM

Just bought an Mac Pro 1.1 to have all my PowerPC machines file served and unified

So what's the plan??

IIO · « **Reply #68 on:** November 02, 2019, 09:23:05 AM »

it´s for his collection of shopping lists in simpletext format.

mrhappy · « **Reply #69 on:** November 03, 2019, 08:17:03 AM »

OminousSilence · « **Reply #70 on:** November 05, 2019, 02:14:02 AM »

Most recent thing I bought was a replacement PCI 10Base-T ethernet card for the PM5500, the GeoPort modem was useless (British Telecom killed dialup almost a decade ago now) and the thought of networking over serial via a Sun Blade100 made me want to gouge out my eyes.

So now the 5500 is plugged into the Pi via ethernet, the Pi is in bridge routing mode, and I have an amazing ~1.4mbps file transfer rate now! I’m not sure whether the Pi or the 5500’s system bus is the data choke point because all my maths says I should get ~54mbps

IIO · « **Reply #71 on:** November 20, 2019, 02:40:28 PM »

hdd case #4 arrived.

and those.

OS923 · « **Reply #72 on:** November 23, 2019, 02:01:47 AM »

I switched my ADB mouse II for a lasermouse. It's the first time I use OS 9 with a lasermouse. It's a Logitech M90. The ADB mouse II was old and the ball slipped constantly. I had to correct myself constantly and I got a painful arm. Now my arm doesn't hurt anymore.

IIO · « **Reply #73 on:** November 23, 2019, 01:30:27 PM »

damn, the floppy drive does not support external power, so i cant use it in OS9.

mrhappy · « **Reply #74 on:** November 24, 2019, 09:53:40 PM »

A lot of stuff seems to be showing up on the porch lately!

Have a 'new' MDD on the way, A dozen or so hard drives (a few spinners and a bunch of SSDs, USB extension cables, even bought some crazy USB wireless extender (probably should ease up on the late night cocktails while on eBay!

) and I few other doodads that I've forgotten about already... will be a fun surprise when they show up!

Irisman · « **Reply #75 on:** November 26, 2019, 02:28:12 PM »

I bought some cheap chinese IDE to SATA, IDE to SD, and SATA to SD to make experiments.
Also received great gifts: Korg Oasys PCI, and Keyspan sxpro PCI card.
Two Motu 2408 mkii.
An USB fujitsu magneto optical drive is on the way.

Philgood · « **Reply #76 on:** November 27, 2019, 12:16:20 AM »

Wow. A KORG OASYS! Let me know what you think of its sound capabilities.

macStuff · « **Reply #77 on:** November 28, 2019, 12:23:49 AM »

nice score irisman

mrhappy · « **Reply #78 on:** December 01, 2019, 02:45:23 PM »

My 'new' MDD(1.25) single showed up... Had 2 hard drives installed but NO DRIVE CAGE!!!! Somehow it managed to survive the trip from the west coast to New York without any damage and both drives still work.

Also had a nice condition 1ghz 15" TiBook show up... No OS9 in sight though so I'll have to fix that!!!

OminousSilence · « **Reply #79 on:** December 12, 2019, 05:59:46 AM »

Quote from: mrhappy on December 01, 2019, 02:45:23 PM

a nice condition 1ghz 15" TiBook show up

I'm amazed that it's okay! TiBooks dent as soon as you even think of postage stamps, let alone shipping them

The MDD will be a nice machine for pootling around on, are you going to split it with OS X on one drive and MacOS on the other?

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