I love my trusty B&W, its given me loyal service for 5 years now, but it isn't getting any younger. It is mostly used by my wife for web, itunes and pictures. I want it to last through the end of the year without any major upgrades. So to that end I bought a 120 gb hard drive for it today. Its current specs are: Sonnet G3 500 mhz, 512 mb ram, the original 16 mb video card and the stock 9 gig SCSI drive and a second 20 gig EIDE drive, those drives are stuffed to the gills with about 1-4 gig total available.... Staples has a special on a Maxtor 7200 rpm 120 Gb drive with the 8mb buffer for $59!!! find it here:
I figure the extra space will give Ol' Blue enough breathing room to keep its ghost for a while. I want to buy my wife an iMac g5 around Xmas and then go nuts modding the B&W. (look honey, it glows in the dark!)
Rev. As can take hard drives with a pci controller. I used an sata and now it reads faster than a quick silver. Yeah the are quiet, but have you ever read the temps on a fully loaded one? I have a fan controller and new fans that kick in when the going gets tough, which is rare, but it will be needed when it gets server duty. -maestro
Registered: 10/16/04
Posts: 586
Loc: Vancouver, BC Canada
yes, a new HD can help bring new life to a B&W. you should also consider a video card upgrade. find a radeon 700 or 9200 pci on ebay cheap. it will make photos come up much faster for your wife.
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Mac mini C2D 1.83GHz - 2GB RAM - 200GB 7200rpm HD Sawtooth w/G4 1GHz - 1GB RAM - SIIG SATA w/2x1TB HD B&W w/G4 600MHz - 1GB RAM - 2x80GB HD Sawtooth G4 400MHz - 512MB RAM - 40GB HD Dell Ultrasharp 2007WFP 20" Widescreen LCD 2.94TB Total Storage