The 120 Gb drive I picked up on eBay the other week arrived today. But it doesn’t look like I’ll be using it anytime soon. I was planning on replacing the internal 12 Gb drive in my aging G3/G4 Blue & White with an 80 Gb drive and then adding the 120 as an external in a FireWire enclosure. But the 80 Gb drive won’t work reliably in the B&W: at 133 MHz, it’s a bit too fast for it, since the chassis was built when 33 MHz was reasonable. So I put the 80 Gb drive back in the enclosure, put the 120 on the shelf, and am preparing to wipe clean the internal drive to make what use I can of it.
Do I throw $35 at this box to add an ATA card that can handle these better drives? Or do I get another enclosure for the 120 Gb drive?
I’m leaning toward B, since that allows me to move the drives around as needed. And when the mini or possible a new iMac should arrive, I’ll be able to use them all with that.
[composed and posted with ecto]