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To: N4ZQ who wrote (6846)	12/15/1997 11:33:00 PM
From: Eric Yang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

Both the DT and MT PowerMac G3s use IDE harddrives. Unlike the 8600 and 7600 that have two SCSI buses capable of theoretical throughput of 10MB/sec internal and 5MB external max, the G3s has a single SCSI bus (5MB/sec I think) shared by both internal and external device. IDE drives are usually considered inferior to SCSI because it puts more load on the CPU but the IDE drives in G3s are extremely fast and the processor overhead on the powerful G3 is not noticeable. Eric

To: N4ZQ who wrote (6846)	12/16/1997 11:10:00 AM
From: louis mason	Respond to of 213173

Dear Angier, The current models of G3 are IDE, I think. Actually this does matter to me a little, and this is one of the reasons that I went with the 7300/180. I'm sort of waiting for the next generation of G3 in order to evaluate one that is SCSI internally. I'm also waiting to see if they are going to change the video slot to AGP, which seems like a mistake to me since most of the fast action graphic games are not in the mac format anyway. I look at this machine more for its reliability and graphic capabilities than its gaming potential....lm