Since my post above I have 'redeployed' the two Indigo 500 and the Snow DVSE 500 by shuffling around their RAM and drives according to age and processor version:
Snow 10.3.9/1GB/30GB (2000) became Snow 10.2.8/768MB/40GB
Indigo-1 10.2.8/768MB/20GB (2002) became Indigo-1 10.4.10/1GB/40GB
Indigo-2 10.4.10/768MB/20GB (2001) became Indigo-2 10.3.9/768MB/30GB
In retrospect, I should have made Indigo-2 the Tiger Mac, as its video is clearer and brighter. Indigo-1's new (different) 40GB HDD (10k rpm) died within a month. Too hot in the space at those rpm, I suspect, so it now has a 20GB 10k rpm, which is doing famously.
I had not used the DVD-ROM/CD-ROM drive in the Snow much in six-and-a-half years, and it always sounded as if it was labouring mightily, so I replaced it with a CD-R only. I do all burning externally in LaCie drives, as it happens, and use DVD only for data. Even with their rear 'feet' elevated on 18-mm blocks (40mm for the Snow, so as to get its screen vertical in a rack) for more efficient cooling, they are distinctly warm at the top vent (but not hot) in our summer. If you are thinking about regular use of DVD, I'd suggest an external FW drive.
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(60x) 13DT + 3PB + PTPro; (G3) 7DT/MT; (G4) 3T + PB. System 8.1 to OS 10.5.8
Snow 10.3.9/1GB/30GB (2000) became Snow 10.2.8/768MB/40GB
Indigo-1 10.2.8/768MB/20GB (2002) became Indigo-1 10.4.10/1GB/40GB
Indigo-2 10.4.10/768MB/20GB (2001) became Indigo-2 10.3.9/768MB/30GB
In retrospect, I should have made Indigo-2 the Tiger Mac, as its video is clearer and brighter. Indigo-1's new (different) 40GB HDD (10k rpm) died within a month. Too hot in the space at those rpm, I suspect, so it now has a 20GB 10k rpm, which is doing famously.
I had not used the DVD-ROM/CD-ROM drive in the Snow much in six-and-a-half years, and it always sounded as if it was labouring mightily, so I replaced it with a CD-R only. I do all burning externally in LaCie drives, as it happens, and use DVD only for data. Even with their rear 'feet' elevated on 18-mm blocks (40mm for the Snow, so as to get its screen vertical in a rack) for more efficient cooling, they are distinctly warm at the top vent (but not hot) in our summer. If you are thinking about regular use of DVD, I'd suggest an external FW drive.
de
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(60x) 13DT + 3PB + PTPro; (G3) 7DT/MT; (G4) 3T + PB. System 8.1 to OS 10.5.8