Hi, Theos911. Thanks again for your post of solidarity about SSD pricing in the OWC Blog. I still would like to encourage the rest of you reading this to do the same. It's never too late to ask and receive!
Yes, my second PB G3 Wallstreet was truly a great score indeed. It would have been better had another fellow not bid against me though, as the opening price was about $80. Even so, once you add up all the prices of what individual parts would cost, I still consider it a good deal.
Since the seller was unwilling to ship direct to me in Japan, I had him ship to a family member in California, who in turn will ship it to me. It costs me more than way, but until more sellers realize there's nothing to fear by shipping direct to Japan, I'll have to live with it. Most sellers are reasonable though, and in my 17 years of living in Japan, I've only had a few hardcore sellers like this who refused to sell anything except to The Land of the Free, Home of the Brave ("brave" of course at all times except when shipping outside the country).
Since I haven't received the computer yet, I completely overlooked a couple important facts in my posts yesterday. Upon closer examination of the Wallstreet system I just won, I see that it not only comes with a USB cardbus adapter, but it also comes with a Firewire cardbus adapter too! My eyes didn't even see that when I bid for the item. I had been so enamored by the fact it had the CPU card I was seeking that I overlooked everything else.
More specifically, the two cardbus cards included are the following:
• AKE USB 2.0 cardbus
• Adaptec FireConnect cardbus
The only thing is, the seller didn't setup those cards to work on the computer, and it doesn't seem clear that any CDs or drivers were included. That means to get them to work, I would need to hunt down the driver. I visited the Adaptec site and found this page:
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/fireconnect/afw-1430/
But sadly, there is no downloadable image of the CD that was originally included with the FireConnect card, which has the Mac drivers.
But assuming I can find the drivers and get it to work, I believe the Firewire card would be better than the USB card when connecting to an external drive. Because based on what I have read, the FireConnect Firewire card will work in OS 9 (the OS I primarily intend to use with these Wallstreets), whereas the USB card will drop to USB1 speeds under OS 9.
OWC has some refurbished 2.5" IDE drive enclosures for $40, which I am keeping my eye on:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Macally/PHR250CC/
So I am thinking about putting a 40GB OWC "Legacy" edition SSD in the external enclosure, then clone the internal 80GB drive (which contains much less than 80GB on it) to the external SSD, and then swap out the internal 80GB drive and replace it with the SSD.
No, I've never swapped out a PowerBook hard drive before, as I am brand new to them. Any advice you can offer would of course be appreciated.
Thanks.
Yes, my second PB G3 Wallstreet was truly a great score indeed. It would have been better had another fellow not bid against me though, as the opening price was about $80. Even so, once you add up all the prices of what individual parts would cost, I still consider it a good deal.
Since the seller was unwilling to ship direct to me in Japan, I had him ship to a family member in California, who in turn will ship it to me. It costs me more than way, but until more sellers realize there's nothing to fear by shipping direct to Japan, I'll have to live with it. Most sellers are reasonable though, and in my 17 years of living in Japan, I've only had a few hardcore sellers like this who refused to sell anything except to The Land of the Free, Home of the Brave ("brave" of course at all times except when shipping outside the country).
Since I haven't received the computer yet, I completely overlooked a couple important facts in my posts yesterday. Upon closer examination of the Wallstreet system I just won, I see that it not only comes with a USB cardbus adapter, but it also comes with a Firewire cardbus adapter too! My eyes didn't even see that when I bid for the item. I had been so enamored by the fact it had the CPU card I was seeking that I overlooked everything else.
More specifically, the two cardbus cards included are the following:
• AKE USB 2.0 cardbus
• Adaptec FireConnect cardbus
The only thing is, the seller didn't setup those cards to work on the computer, and it doesn't seem clear that any CDs or drivers were included. That means to get them to work, I would need to hunt down the driver. I visited the Adaptec site and found this page:
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/fireconnect/afw-1430/
But sadly, there is no downloadable image of the CD that was originally included with the FireConnect card, which has the Mac drivers.
But assuming I can find the drivers and get it to work, I believe the Firewire card would be better than the USB card when connecting to an external drive. Because based on what I have read, the FireConnect Firewire card will work in OS 9 (the OS I primarily intend to use with these Wallstreets), whereas the USB card will drop to USB1 speeds under OS 9.
OWC has some refurbished 2.5" IDE drive enclosures for $40, which I am keeping my eye on:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Macally/PHR250CC/
So I am thinking about putting a 40GB OWC "Legacy" edition SSD in the external enclosure, then clone the internal 80GB drive (which contains much less than 80GB on it) to the external SSD, and then swap out the internal 80GB drive and replace it with the SSD.
No, I've never swapped out a PowerBook hard drive before, as I am brand new to them. Any advice you can offer would of course be appreciated.
Thanks.