Originally Posted by NorCal DC4
1. It is the first-rev, 117Mhz model.
2. Thank the previous owner.
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3. My System 7.6 partition is just shy of 329MB. My 7.5.3 partition is 412 MB. So there ya go. You've handily got me beat on storage. But I'm not too worried, I've got a refugee external SCSI drive I salvaged from an old Quadra 610 I used to own... still runs like a champ.
I'm not sure where the market is.. since I pulled back from Mac Consulting in 01, I've been loafing along a bit. My advice would be to trust your instincts and go with the 2 ATA133 cards. If for some reason one of the cards were to take a dump, you'll have some measure of redundancy.. It'll be crowded inside that case though.
In all honesty, though. I've just been judicious with my backups...and my 10 GB drive on the G3 has done fine. A terabyte is great for big-time multimedia authoring...but unless you can make it price competitive, I question the need to do it.
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My 2.5¥. :cheers:
It would only be $600 to do a Terrabyte on a PCI mac (because you can get the drives and controllers for under $100 ea. on-line). That's some dirt cheap storage right there. Right now, the XServe RAID is the lowest cost per gigabyte redundant storage solution available anywhere in the server market, and they also have the highest runtime/availability track record, but I ain't got that kind of $.
I encoded my whole CD collection and my iTunes library is 68GB. My laptop only holds 80GB. Gotta put it all somewhere. I have about 180-200 GB of backed up work and media from the past 10 years, and some of that's nice to have on my network instead of on CDs. All I really needed was a 250GB.
I'm doing Mac consulting now. It's a weird market these days. Mostly small graphic shops like it's always been, but the people that need you can't really use anyone else because there's not many IT people that really know Mac. With only 4 clients, I'm lucky to get 10 hours a week because Mac stuff doesn't break. I'm like the Maytag guy. If I could get 40 hours, I'd be making doctor money. I could get 40 hours plus travel expenses if I went to Qatar, but I don't think that's the best place for a 6'4" brown haired white dude to be right now... I'm trying to stay relatively local, looking for other opportunities.