keeping it fast..G4 500mhzDP

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natmagoo

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If there is an answer achievable without somehow seperating all my files into different hard drives...backing everything up and reinstalling. What happened to the Norton clean up, free up software? Is there a better software or simpler method to keep my system running fast.

I have two hard drives on a dual 500mhz g4.

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living in ignorance
 
Amen to the comments about Nortons. But in response to "keeping it fast" there are only a limited number of things you can do short of major hardware upgrades or a new faster Mac.
  • Cleaning up the cache files etc. with Cocktail has already been mentioned
  • Be sure and have journaling turned on as that enables Panther's hot file clustering and file optimization processes
  • Keeping a lot of headroom (free disk space) on your volumes. OS X likes a lot of headroom! (Never go below 15% free on any volume as that dramatically increases the risk of irreparable file system damage).
  • If you are getting down to around 20 or 25% free space on a volume, defragmenting the drive with TechTool Pro 4 or iDefrag may provide some marginal improvements but you would likely need something like XBench to be able to detect it.
  • IMHO multiple partitions are not woth the trouble and effort, so forget that.
  • If your drive is getting relatively full use TechTool Pro 4 or DiskWarrior to clean up and optimize the volume directory.
  • This is an upgrade, but it will help maintain peak performance and is relatively cheap - max out your RAM
  • While on the topic of upgrades, for serious performance improvements/maintenance, get bigger faster hard drive(s) and upgrade your CPU with the fastest processor you can find, in addition to maxing out the RAM
  • The ultimate is, of course, investing in a dual processor PowerMac G5 with 8 GB of RAM, and a level 5 RAID disk array. :D (don't I wish I could afford one like that?)
 
The "perfessor"'s right, just one note on RAID 5, just so long as RAID 5 is hardware RAID 5 and not handled in software by the computer. RAID 5 is a big overhead.
 
thewelshman said:
The "perfessor"'s right, just one note on RAID 5, just so long as RAID 5 is hardware RAID 5 and not handled in software by the computer. RAID 5 is a big overhead.
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...and the perfessor says AMEN! By-the-way, have you seen LaCie's new Firewire RAID array? They are getting the price down to a range that is feasible even for the small office!
 
We used some of their kit recently for data transfer when the company I was working for bought another. This version was a 1TB Firewire (800mbs), it did the job flawlessly, it was so partable and fast!. What was sad was the MS loaded PCs they were using couldn't handle the throughput, when we did the math it was always way bellow expected.

Trouble is that if I mention Macs to these people over here I get utterly ridiculed, and I'm the one in charge of the UNIX servers (Solaris,SGI kit), these is not justice in the world.
 
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