Swapped out a dead IDE drive for a Compact Flash card in my old Power Mac

I was trying to get this G3 beige tower running again, and the old hard drive kept clicking. Threw in a 16GB CF card with a IDE adapter and it booted right up, no noise at all. Anybody gone the SSD route instead for these old Macs, and was it worth the extra trouble?

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nancy2751d ago

cf cards are way more reliable in my experience, ssds can be finicky with old ide controllers.

kim.sandra1d agoMost Upvoted

You just gotta grab a quality cf to ide adapter and it works every time.