Nice! It's for my son to run educational software on it, so it will get a fair bit of use although not 12hours a day or anything like that. Still trying to source the right machine but wanted to know what ssd options are out there. Was pretty set on the high end G3 iBooks but the GPU issues are killing my options there. Almost no choice of functional machine for sale, just parts units on fleabay. I may have to reconsider, I had him setup with a G3 tower but it takes up to much space for how often he uses it, so trying to find a laptop equivalent, and avoiding G4 units for reasons...If it isn't a daily driver, 12 hours / day machine, I've had excellent luck with these in my Pismos and 1400. This specific style has a laptop style IDE connector and full size SD Card. Note that they run faster than my stock Pismo drives by quite a way!
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Have you considered a Mac Mini, or is it all G4s, not just laptops? You can run OS 9 on the 1.25 and 1.42 (I believe there are issues on the 1.5) with a patched version of OS 9.
It needs to be easily put away so has to be a laptop. Also really only looking for native OS9 support I could get a TI book I do love them, I have had several over the years but I wanted something a bit tougher since it's my kid who will be using it and I don't want him to have to baby it as much. I also just prefer a G3 if possible due to personal taste. Wonder if herd could redo the GPU on a iBook G3 and have it last vs all the shimming and other nonsense people try.
OK I can probably search that, I do like Pismo machines a lot and they are pretty tough, I was looking for something a little bit faster though.
If a (slightly?) newer machine uses the same HDD interface, it should be OK.
Which mSATA adapter and which mSATA SSD do you tend to use? Im looking for a solution for my Pismo.
I'm using an mSATA card in an IDE-mSATA adapter in my Mac Mini G4 and it benchmarks substantially faster than my 32GB IDE SSD, a CF card in an adapter or an SD card in an adapter.
I guess on this basis any of the ones on eBay should work too.
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This is good to know and would explain the cheap prices.
Interesting! I never realized m.2 sata and mSATA we're different technologies. I just checked the m.2 sata prices, and they seem pretty reasonable, so I'll have to give it a try when I need a new IDE SSD.
mSATA preceded M.2 by a few years. M.2 basically replaced it and mini-PCIe in one fell swoop.
You can sometimes find sellers with lots of multiple drives, pulled from old laptops that were upgraded. I bought ten 128GB drives, seemingly a common capacity for budget laptops, for 7,50 euros each. With the adapter, it's not too bad for maxing out the storage on the earlier IDE PPC Macs that have the 128GB addressing limit.
This is very pricey, especially in the UK. Any reason to use this particular one? Do the cheaper ones from China not work?
I can't say it would not work, I'd be curious to know if it does, and I would probably try it.
