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Housing additions
If you're looking to add a larger HD to your G4/AGP "Sawtooth" you should know that the motherboard limits you to 137GB. This means that you can't fit an HD larger than 120GB without some help.
The "help" comes in the form of a PCI controller card which is a fairly inexpensive and extremely easy way to up your storage. Here are the only two parts you need for more space:
1: Sonnet ATA/133 PCI Card and
2: A larger HD. (As of press date you could buy 250GB for about $230)
The ATA/133 is quite nice. While it does run at a faster clock speed your machines performance may actually be a bit slower - but not noticeably. Your computer will boot just fine off this so you can remove your old HD and it's cables if you like to keep things clean and simple.
The card allows for 4 drives to be plugged in + supports RAID so you've got the potential for some serious speed and storage size.
Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on May 4, 2004 10:55 PM