Advice on adding internal HD to G3 400

MDLarson

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I'm thinking I want to add a 18 GB (or so) internal hard drive to my G3 400 B&W-- It looks like the 9 GB I have now is SCSI--should I get another SCSI drive? They're supposed to be faster, but they're more expensive, of course.

What speed would be good? I'm planning on a lot of graphics and junk like that, as well as a place to swap files back and forth if I do HD reformats and when I upgrade to Mac OS X and stuff.

Any thoughts?

p.s. (See attached image for Apple System Profiler screenshot of SCSI info)
 

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If you have a B&W G3 and no IDE drives, you are wasting some drive bays. While SCSI is good for certain situations, nothing beats a big fat cheap 80GB or bigger HD or 2.

if you don't have an ATA cable, get one. Then go to www.pricewatch.com and get a nice price on an 80GB 7200 RPM drive. I got one for about $130, and that was a few months ago, prices have gone down.

don't settle for less than 60 GB. I'm on my way to having over a weeks worth of MP3s and I still have over 45GB available including the 3 OS's i have loaded and all the applications.

My next step is to get a cheap beige G3 233 to use as a dedicated file server so I can throw in a 120GB drive and just STUFF it full of MP3s, then have my other to Macs just mount that drive on boot ....
 
I'm thinking ATA drives are the way to go. As I understand it, they are cheaper than SCSI and from what testuser says, SCSI disks cannot be used in most later models.

Anyway, I guess there is a data corruption issue on the rev 1 B&W G3's (which I have). http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/yosemite/IDE/ says the safest way to add or replace a hard drive is to install an PCI IDE card.

I'm looking at two such cards from Sonnet. The Tempo ATA100 and the Tempo Ultra ATA66.

My question is this: if I buy any new large IDE hard drive, would I want an ATA66 (66 MB/s max) or ATA100? Sonnet's Tempo ATA100 says it works with ATA133, so I'm a little confused by that too.

Sonnet's cards are $99.95 and $79.95.
 
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