rickyzhang
Well-known member
I picked up a great condition 17'' 1.67Ghz Power Book G4 for $50 from my colleagues at work.
The Apple stock hard drive is slow @5400RPM. I know that it is easier to replace hard drive in PB G4 than my another iBook G4. So again I want to replace it with SSD.
Here is the dilemma I have when choosing SSD:
1. Buy off-the-shelf PATA like macsales or kingspecs
2. Buy mSATA SSD and used PATA-2-mSATA adapter which I bought a year ago but I didn't use it due to complicate setup in iBook G4.
I watched Youtube video and learnt that option2 is way much faster than option 1 (see https://youtu.be/Kths7erj89w?t=303)
I dig through several threads. But nobody do a benchmark. I hope I can get a confirmation and also details hardware that I can save time and money to repeat the trial and error process.
TIA
The Apple stock hard drive is slow @5400RPM. I know that it is easier to replace hard drive in PB G4 than my another iBook G4. So again I want to replace it with SSD.
Here is the dilemma I have when choosing SSD:
1. Buy off-the-shelf PATA like macsales or kingspecs
2. Buy mSATA SSD and used PATA-2-mSATA adapter which I bought a year ago but I didn't use it due to complicate setup in iBook G4.
I watched Youtube video and learnt that option2 is way much faster than option 1 (see https://youtu.be/Kths7erj89w?t=303)
I dig through several threads. But nobody do a benchmark. I hope I can get a confirmation and also details hardware that I can save time and money to repeat the trial and error process.
TIA