so it is ide but fasterthe last revision of IDE before Serial ATA was introduced. It is twice as fast as the stock G4 IDE controller, and unlike the stock G4 card, it will handle drives larger than 128GB.
i own a 733 (Digital Audio).In the last few years we have gone from ATA33, ATA66, ATA100 and at the very end just before SATA sort of took over, ATA133. It's capable of 133 Megs Per Second but with 7200RPM IDE drives you will never get that speed, but it's does not hurt to have the extra there!
The main reason for a PCI IDE card is, like Geeky1 said, support for drives larger than 128GB. It will be faster than the stock Apple chipset also.
Which powermac G4 do you own?
no i'm trying to find out what i can do to get more storageI have to ask one question; do you already have the drive?