What to do with Power Mac G4 Sawtooth
Hello.
After 9 years, I saw this post.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2740451
And I want to share my own experience of using the "old man" in 2020 as a file server.
The 128 gigabyte limit is bypassed in two ways.
1 - software - extremely slow work, so for a file serhttps://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Port-SATA-II-PCI-X-Controller-Card-Apple-PowerMac-G4-G5-OS-X-Bootable-SSD/254460735285
There is also a version for Mac OS 10.5
2 - SATA controllers. I used this method with this controller:
Also, there are versions for 4 SATA ports
I connected the SSD as a system disk through the IDE-SATA adapter, for example, you can take this:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDMXLE120/
I have a bi-directional SATA-IDE controller, and it is unidirectional, but it doesn’t change the essence - it works and works faster than on HDD
I also have a PCI USB hub installed, to which 2 external HDDs of 250 and 500 gigabytes are connected - in the future they can be replaced with more capacious ones.
I installed the Mac OS Server, but this is not necessary, all the same can be configured in a regular system. This is more for myself - I always wanted a real server at home;)
As a result - for watching movies over the network in 1080p this configuration is enough for me.
Checked on files up to 15 gigabytes in size.
Thanks for attention)
