That drive will work fine on the Mac's internal bus but will never reach it's full potential there. If you had two 2 of 'em you could get a ATA RAID card and see some impressive throughput.

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Yeah, even though the HDD is 7200rpm and has an 8Mb cache, you won't see much noticeable improvement on an ATA66 bus. You're stuck with the bottleneck. But as M Brane stated, with another HDD and an ATA RAID card, you'll be rockin!
Also, bulk that G4 up with as much CAS2 PC133 as you can. It's a cheap way to keep your Mac crankin.

Thats too bad:(

Thanks M Brane & SOS for the assistance.

With respect to the ATA raid card: I have RME hdsp card and will be getting either of Powercore or UAD1. Will a the Ata Raid tax the PCI bus to the extent that I may have problems with bottleneck there?

With respect to maxing out on CAS2 PC133, any recommendations on brand?

I really am getting warmed up. This forum is full o' vibes.

Guidance,
ska

It's possible to have issues if you have more than 1 bus mastering card in there. Sometimes you can swap cards around to get them to play nice, sometimes not. The Sonnet & SIIG cards have an AV utility that slows the transfer rates for older Macs with 32mhz PCI, although that kinda defeats the purpose of a RAID. You might want to dig around some of the Mac audio sites to see if anyone has a similar combo.

Hard to go wrong with Crucial RAM. A bit pricey, but good stuff and a good return policy just in case.

"You might want to dig around some of the Mac audio sites to see if anyone has a similar combo."
Thanks M Brain for the suggestions.

I must confess that I am not only new to RO, but also a complete "newbie" to the very concept of online forums... :roll:

Can someone recommend a few good Mac Audio sites?

Ta,
Ska