Upgrading my G4 MDD with a SONNET Encore/Crescendo MDX G4 Duet 1.8GHz Dual CPU Upgrade

[Phipli]

Even in the 8600 I was testing last night, Norton System Info was managing 30MB/s read and write with a SIL3112 card. Remembering that fast SCSI was theoretically 10MB/s, but good luck finding a disk that gets close to that.

 

[Irinikus]

Here's the Schematic for the AcBel Power Supply that's in My machine: (The Power Supplies in MDD's are prone to failure due to bad caps. So it will be a wise move to re-cap my system's power supply.)



Here's list of capacitors required to re-cap the AcBel MDD Power Supply:



I don't want do go the way of the ATX Power Supply mod in this machine!

 

[Irinikus]

There's a bit of goop, but these units appear to be relatively service friendly:

 

[Irinikus]

I installed the SSD into the system today:







It took 1 hour and 10 minutes to copy across 50.91GB!





Here's the new drive speed test result:



It's a significant improvement over the original mechanical drive: (Especially in the random read and write department!)