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shaktiman
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1226 Posts |
 Posted - 10 Dec 2002 : 04:05:07
What is the largest/fastest hard drive I can use with my Quadra840av?Can I buy an scsi drive "off the shelf"/ new? shaktiman Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive,3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14" os 8.1
Powerbook Duo 280c, 12 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive
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alcoa
Full Member
Albania
543 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2002 : 08:15:09
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What is the largest/fastest hard drive I can use with my Quadra840av?Can I buy an scsi drive "off the shelf"/ new?
You should be asking what's the largest, fastest drive that's worth paying for, given the limitations of the machine's transfer rate and the addressing cspability of the OS you are running.Buying a new SCSI drive is probably a waste of money. It'd undoubtedly be cheaper to get a GARGANTUAN ATA drive and a SCSI bridge. Even a NuBus SCSI accelerator card probably wouldn't do justice to a modern, exceedingly expensive, high performance SCSI drive meant for server duty. The days of SCSI drives for consumer level machines has been over for a LONG time! jt
Edited by - alcoa on 10 Dec 2002 08:17:24
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shaktiman
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1226 Posts |
Posted - 11 Dec 2002 : 08:46:50
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You should be asking what's the largest, fastest drive that's worth paying for, given the limitations of the machine's transfer
rate and the addressing cspability of the OS you are running.
Yes sounds right....... quote:
Buying a new SCSI drive is probably a waste of money. It'd undoubtedly be cheaper to get a GARGANTUAN ATA drive
and a SCSI bridge.
hmmmm, ATA, SCSI bridge, I dont know these terms is bridge~adapter? quote:
Even a NuBus SCSI accelerator card probably wouldn't do justice to a modern exceedingly
expensive, high performance SCSI drive meant for server duty.,
fair enough, so what can my Quadra840av make use of? quote:
The days of SCSI drives for consumer level machines has been over for a LONG time!
oh, I didnt know, I left this planet about 1996. PC & Apple won out over other computers but they just don't offer the same "real" "involvement" level. My PC Took lots of time & effort & the most "entertaining" thing it ever did was, Deluxe Paint II(not including Gemulator which worked a treat) It is similar with my mac I am chasing my backside just trying to get "the right set-up", but true mac is nowhere near as bad as PC. Truly I quote my 840av as being "the best computer I have owned", Just a pity about the OS being in the way. Is Linux fun? Is it easy to set up? should I bother with Linux? shaktiman Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive,3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14" os 8.1
Powerbook Duo 280c, 12 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive
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