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The latter involved cannibalizing an old IDE CDROM to IDE enclosure, removing all but the PCB (because of the layout of the 44-pin to 40-pin adapter), but once I had that worked out, I attached the USB device to the Mac Mini. What I ended up doing was 44-pin to 40-pin, then 40-pin to USB. I could have done the same with a G4 tower, but thatРІР‚в„ўs buried in a closet.

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My first idea was to use a 44-pin laptop IDE to 40-pin regular IDE adapter I had, install it in an old spare x86 machine I had, boot Finnix, recreate the partitions and sync from machine to machine.Р”В«ut mac-fdisk is only available on PowerPC, so that was out. The G4 Mac Minis have no room for expansion (the drive and a single stick of memory barely fit in the case as is). Migrating the hard drives was a bit of an ordeal. I ordered two from Amazon, as well as two of literally the cheapest 128GB M.2 SATA drives available ($52 each on sale at the time). The difference is just price and how long you want to wait for them to arrive. TheyРІР‚в„ўre available from several outlets ( Amazon, eBay, AliExpress, etc), but all appear to be the same base manufacturer. SD to IDE adapters exist and IРІР‚в„ўve tried a few over the years, but compatibility tends to be terrible, and the interface is slow.Р”В«ut the other day, I found something I didnРІР‚в„ўt expect to exist: an M.2 SATA (up to 2280 length) to 44-pin IDE adapter, housed in a 2.5РІР‚Сњ enclosure.Р”Р„nd from what I read at the time, supposedly they worked well. SSDs really didnРІР‚в„ўt exist until the SATA era.Р”В¬ompactFlash to IDE adapters are available, but most of the ones IРІР‚в„ўve seen are РІР‚СљlooseРІР‚Сњ (not in a form factor emulating a standard physical drive size), and besides, CompactFlash is basically obsolete too. The drives are standard laptop-style 2.5РІР‚Сњ 44-pin IDE drives. InezРІР‚в„ўs upgraded hard drive is РІР‚СљonlyРІР‚Сњ 7 years old and looks to be in good shape, but it will fail someday. I checked leoРІР‚в„ўs original 12-year old hard drive SMART data, and its seek failures were so high, IРІР‚в„ўm surprised itРІР‚в„ўs still running. IDE hard drives are not manufactured anymore, and they will eventually fail, being constantly spinning mechanical platters. Leo is a stock 1.2GHz G4 and an 80GB HDD.Р”В«ut IРІР‚в„ўve been thinking about their longevity lately, and not just because Debian and Ubuntu are dropping the 32-bit PowerPC architecture.

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Inez is the more powerful of the two, with a 1.4GHz G4 and a 320GB 2.5РІР‚Сњ IDE HDD from an upgrade in 2010. One of the nice things about the G4 Minis is they are very power efficient for the period РІР‚вЂњ about 12 watts at idle РІР‚вЂњ so I treat them as always-on servers. My two G4 Mac Minis ( leo and inez РІР‚вЂњ the home network uses Futurama characters for a naming scheme) were released in 2005, and for the most part, they have been running 24/7 since then, usually for Finnix builds. Instead, IРІР‚в„ўm giving them solid state drives. Mel's Macintosh Universe.I have two PowerPC G4 Mac Minis which have been in service since they were released in 2005. If you want to learn more about this model there's tons of info on the web, here is just one interesting link I found. 2 USB ports, 2 Firewire ports, 56k modem and ethernet.

Hard drive is 40GB and it has a Superdrive which reads and burns both CD-R's and DVD's, pretty much all formats. It currently has OS 9.2.2 and OS 10.2.8 (Jaguar) installed. It's a dual boot machine which means it can start up in both OS 9 & OSX. You can find the matching 17' Apple Studio Display online for around $400.00 (originally $(975.00). It has it's original Apple keyboard and mouse (no monitor). It has 1.12 GB ram and can hold a total of 1.5 GB. This machine looks and runs like new and has been in a smoke free air conditioned studio since it was purchased new in 2002.

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Power Mac G4 - 733 Mhz - $450.00 Code name 'Quicksilver' When the original G4's were released (much slower than this one), the US Government outlawed their sale to certain foreign countries because they were so fast and efficient that they were capable of sophisticated weapons control.