[SteveC]

I have an older (original) G4/450 tower. The original drive was 20 Gig, and a while back I installed a 120GB drive.

I am in the process of cleaning up all my computers, getting them on the same OS, etc. I want to put the system folder on the 120 Gig drive, which is in bay #2.

If I start-up from the 120G drive as my primary drive, and use the 20G for overflow stuff, does it make a difference on performance? It would be easier to leave them where they are, and there is no sense in moving them if if makes no difference in performance.

Thanks :-)

[PKIDelirium]

A bay is a bay, just make sure the jumpers are set.

[SteveC]

Originally Posted by PKIDelirium A bay is a bay, just make sure the jumpers are set.

Actually, changing the jumpers is as much work as moving the drives. But that wasn't the big surprise. It turns out that a bay is not a bay. My MDD has 4 bays, but it only allows 2 ATA/100 drives. The other two need to be SCSI. (While I asked about the 450, I was thinking about another machine, too.) To add a third drive I would need to ad a pci card.

On the G4/450 sawtooth, I am booting up from the slave 120. While it seems that the primary gets power first, since the start-up disk in system preferences is set to the slave I see no performance difference. I suppose some day I will pull it out and reset the jumpers and swap plugs.