[Nobody]

i have a Power Macintosh 7600/120 with a G3 processor and USB port. i want to find a fast, inexpensive external hard drive no less than 40GB storage. YES I searched HERE! but only got more confused with the choices! HELP!! would a usb 2.0 be the way to go? will it work on this box?
TIA really!
Billy

[Nobody]

USB 2 will work, although it will go the speed of USB 1 (SLOW) assuming you have a USB 1 card installed in your mac. As far as I know, the USB 2 cards are only supported under X. If you really want an external drive, I'd look at adding a firewire card, or a firewire/usb 2.o combo card if you want a card that might be useful in the future.

If you decide to go the firewire route, make sure to buy a drive with an oxford 911 bridge.

Unless you really need the portability of an external, you might want to consider an ATA card and new internal HD. This can be done fairly cheaply and works well.

[Nobody]

thanks for your speedy reply!
listen, what is the biggest hd i can fit in this old box?
it has an original 2GB hd and added 4GB hd...total of 6GB images/icons/frown.gif
i need like 40 at least
can this be done? may be that's what i should've asked in the previous note...sorry

[Nobody]

I have a 7500 (same basic machine as yours). I've got an old SCSI 1GB drive internal, and a 60GB maxtor internal that I just added. I used an SIIG ata card. I think the drive and card cost around $200 total. I do have some audio playback problems with this drive which are addressed by sonnet with their ata card. I don't mind the audio playback problems as you have to slow down the ata card to correct them and the drive is fine for burning audio cds from etc.

As far as size, my particular ata card claims to "break the 137 GB barrier" so I don't think drive size is an issue.

What I didn't mention in my first post is that I also have a 40GB firewire drive
(club mac pre oxford 911). Although this drive is alright for an early firewire model, my internal maxtor provides much faster performance and was cheaper.

Anyhow, I'd look at removing the 2GB drive and adding an internal ATA drive and card. Keep the 4GB drive and keep a backup copy of your system folder on it.... comes in handy for booting and running drive repair utilities on the big drive and vice versa. Obviously you want the new internal drive as your main boot / virtual mem. drive.

Hope this helps

[Nobody]

yes, yes and YES!!!! you are incredibly helpful, no if i could only find one of the suckers! any chance you can point me in the right direction or tell me where you got yours?
TIA
B
i found this on a search at google...will it do the trick?
Best Product Matches:
Maxtor 60GB Eide Udma 100 3.5LP 7200RPM RETAIL
buy.com $119
MWAVE.COM $118
CruxWorks $123
and what exactly is the name of the card i need?

[ 05-18-2002: Message edited by: alisonkraussfan ]

[Nobody]

here's the link blank>http://www.nextag.co...h=maxtor%2060gb

[Nobody]

I got my drive and ata card at Other World computing. Here is their site.

I'd recommend the SIIG ATA-133 card and the Maxtor 60GB ATA hard drive. I'd stay away from the IBM deskstar series as I've seen many reports of them failing after a year or so.

Other world computing has pretty good tech support by email or phone as well... good for verifying that whatever items you pick are compatable w/ each other and your mac.

Another place to look is pagecomputing.com. They sell a number of products (pc & mac) and in some cases are cheaper than other world computing.

[Nobody]

sorry for not responding sooner. i usually get an email notification...hmmm?
i talked with the guy who sold me my 7600/120 and he said i needed an IDE card and hard drive. will what you're talking about work as well?

[Nobody]

Yes..... ATA and IDE are interchangable terms.

[Nobody]

you were most helpful to me in my quest for the right thing! thanks to you my storage issues will be far less!
again,
THANK YOU!