Opening the iMac G4 Globe is not a difficult task for someone has worked with computer hardware before, especially when following the nice guide of ifixit. Received the adapter after around 3 weeks and here is how it looks like: Anyway, I decided to give it a chance and it costs just 2 US dollars includes shipping. Since the F60 is an SATA disk, I used an SATA to PATA IDE adapter bought on eBay and I have read before not all of them work well with G4 Globe. TL DR: The SSD disk with the IDE adapter, is around twice faster in sequential reads and writes and 17 times faster in random reads and writes! Though it didn’t reach the theoretical speed of 100MB, it still was very exciting and worth the hacking. And my G4 had an IDE interface of ATA 100 so potentially it can reach the theoretical maximum data transfer rates, which would be very exciting for a 16 years old computer. I have a quite old Corsair Force Series F60 60GB SSD sitting around and it is perfect for upgrading the hard disk of the G4. It looked very new, at least the outside. The G4 was bought from a graphic designer who obviously has taken care of the beautiful machine very well. I recently upgraded the hard disk of an iMac G4 Globe to SSD.
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