G5 configuration advice on HD's....

[Birdman]

I'll be purchasing a G5 when the new models are "supposed" to be announced in Jan.

I'm an illustrator and will need plenty of HD space, and storage...

I don't really understand the thinking behind putting a bunch of storage drives inside the tower ( unless I can be convinced otherwise ;0) ). Archiving stored artworks is a priority for me, as I currently use a firewire drive, as storage on my G4 that can be simply unplugged and removed for storage, or a in case of a fire(!), or yes, tornados. No lugging the tower. This way I can also easily swap out firewire drives from a safety deposit box.

So given my needs, am I missing something about adding drives on the inside at the time of purchase? It seems an external drive is the way to go for storage for me(?). IF I was to buy additional internal drives, is it foolish to buy them from Apple or Apple reseller, like it is w/ memory, and get them much cheaper from reputable 3rd parties?

Thanks! T i m

[Fahrvergnuugen]

speed. internal drives will out perform external firewire 400 drives. also, i've had many more firewire drives suffer from corrupt data than internal ones but that might be just bad luck.

I would suggest (for your situation) a firewire drive. You can create your own, just buy a firewire bay and put an IDE hard disk in it. You can see the one I made for my system sitting on top of my G5 in this pic: http://darklotus.dubr.com/users/fahrvergnuugen/G5_2.jpg

it cost me about 60 bucks for the 120GB hard drive and then 40 bucks for the drive bay... so far its worked great.

[bobw]

You need plenty of hard drive space, so go with two drives. It's usually always cheaper to buy memory, drives, etc, from other vendors than Apple.

Archiving stored artworks is a priority for me, as I currently use a firewire drive, as storage on my G4 that can be simply unplugged and removed for storage, or a in case of a fire(!), or yes, tornados. No lugging the tower. This way I can also easily swap out firewire drives from a safety deposit box.

Keep doing what you're doing now with the external FW drive.

If I were you, I would also archive to a DVD weekly, or when ever you have enough to fill the DVD disks.

[Birdman]

"I would suggest (for your situation) a firewire drive. You can create your own, just buy a firewire bay"

A firewire bay?

"and put an IDE hard disk in it."

an IDE hard disk?

Thanks for the help, Fahrv, but as you can see, I'm not familiar w/ these items, though I know what a "disk" is.

More details please, if you don't mind.

Thanks, T i m

[Birdman]

If I were you, I would also archive to a DVD weekly, or when ever you have enough to fill the DVD disks.

Thanks, Bob, noted!

T i m

[bobw]

Tim
You can buy a firewire case, (bay) and put an IDE drive in it and use it as an external disk, basically what you're already doing with your external drive.