February 25, 2001
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My new G4 is still at least four weeks away from being delivered (although the Pro Speakers and the AppleCare package apparently shipped on Friday), so in the meantime I figured I should give the old box a tuneup. The stock 2GB drive that came with my 8500 has long been teetering on the brink of data saturation. My first task was to slap in the 9GB Seagate drive and an Adaptec ultra-SCSI card that have been collecting dust on top of the pile of hardware detritus beside my desk. I know what you’re thinking. Upgrading a 2GB drive to a 9GB drive… how quaint. Anyway, mounting the drive into the empty bay was easy, although the previous owner had used silicon adhesive to mount the drive to the inside of his computer case. Yuck. Cleaning the residual goo off the drive mounting bracket was simply a pain in the hind quarters. Stuffing the SCSI card into the last remaining PCI slot was a different adventure. Getting it to fit properly meant carving away a chunk of the processor daughtercard support. This was so the support wouldn’t collide with the ribbon cable connector and bend the card down in its slot. Eventually all the bits fit very nicely, thank you very much. After copying files over to the wide, open expanses of the new hard drive, it was time to take Norton to the old one. I honestly cannot remember the last time I optimized the original drive. Maybe I’ve never done it… yikes! Over 20% fragmentation is a bad thing, right? Regardless of its previous state and condition, the 8500 is much happier now. The kids can go ahead and start filling it up again this afternoon.
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