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<blockquote data-quote="pm-r" data-source="post: 1903683" data-attributes="member: 175845">That would not necessarily be the same as &quot;any other external hard drive&quot;, and enclosures for those kind of IDE/PATA, the drive from the G4 is old technology and older compatible enclosures are getting harder to get hold of and probably not the cheapest.You should consider the age of the drive which could be getting close to its end of life as well as the slow speed compared to today's more recent technology drives plus the fact that they are usually generally a lot cheaper.Those IDE drives could handle about 100 MB/s which is a snail Pace speed compared to more recent SATA drives which are usually in the 6 Gb/s speed range,&nbsp; Quite a difference...So I would suggest you rethink your strategy and what you are going to use and the amount of money you are going to spend...&nbsp;&nbsp; A new recent external USB drive would probably be your cheapest fastest best choice and you would end up with a brand-new drive at the same time.Don't skimp trying to utilize old outdated slow equipment, it's not worth it.&nbsp; And life is short enough as it is...&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😇" title="Smiling face with halo&nbsp; &nbsp; :innocent:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f607.png" data-shortname=":innocent:" />- Patrick=======</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pm-r, post: 1903683, member: 175845"] That would not necessarily be the same as "[B]any other external hard drive[/B]", and enclosures for those kind of IDE/PATA, the drive from the G4 is old technology and older compatible enclosures are getting harder to get hold of and probably not the cheapest. You should consider the age of the drive which could be getting close to its end of life as well as the slow speed compared to today's more recent technology drives plus the fact that they are usually generally a lot cheaper. Those IDE drives could handle about 100 MB/s which is a snail Pace speed compared to more recent SATA drives which are usually in the [B]6 Gb/s [/B]speed range, Quite a difference... So I would suggest you rethink your strategy and what you are going to use and the amount of money you are going to spend... A new recent external USB drive would probably be your cheapest fastest best choice and you would end up with a brand-new drive at the same time. Don't skimp trying to utilize old outdated slow equipment, it's not worth it. And life is short enough as it is... 😇 - Patrick ======= [/QUOTE]

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