Date: 08/19/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

Yet more possible speed increase questions:

G4 Quicksilver 733, 10.3.9, 1.125 GB RAM

I've done all of the typical cleaning and optimizations, etc. Upon further inspection, I realize that the main drive is the stock IBM DTLA 305040. 5400 RPM. 512K buffer. Yikes. So, I have come up with a few possible scenarios:

--Replace the system drive with a 7200 drive, with a larger buffer. Maybe even a 10K.

--My system has an adaptec 39160 SCSI PCI card. Perhaps put the system on a SCSI drive and use that as a boot drive?

What questions these raise are:

1. Will the bus the SCSI card is on slow down the performance of the system drive to effectively negate any possible speed benefits?


2. (I've asked this before) What is the bus structure? Shared? If so, which are shared, which are standalone? How fast are the busses?

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