back in 2002 I got this power Mac dual
processor one here her for each
processor this video is about installing
an SSD drive or solid-state drive let's
see if the computer will recognize the
drive and better yet if it will boot
from the drive
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the latest always soup the disk peer
support is low part or they end up tied
up a version I got it with one gigabyte
of RAM and
ATI display card back then aka was a
independent company now it belongs to a
and B and this the graphics card have a
special connector especially made for
Apple it was called up all display
connector it is like a primitive
thunderbird connector because this Apple
display connector carry out the power
for the monitor two USB ports and also
the video signal in just one cable
the two processor from Motorola came is
in a direct card it has four PCI
full-length PCIe slots one AGP back then
the AGP port was before the graphics
120 gigabytes parallel ata dry two
optical drives one super drive and one
theorem the SuperDrive was a big leap
layer and also was capable burning CDs I
believe he has the USB 1.1 version with
two ports also to firewire port for at
456 K modern here with ethernet and also
had option for wireless and Bluetooth it
has analog and digital audio out
this computer was so powerful in 2002
that the US government classifies this
computer as a weapon so it was
prohibited to export to Cuba and some
other countries so it was a nice
accusation it was a nice computer too
powerful to be a personal computer or
home computer
a
few years later I started to feel the
computer a little bit slow so I decided
to write it with the serial ata drives
but this computer has ID a drives the
standard pile 88 right so if they have
any serial ports so I added a sono
Stanford right card it has two serial
ata ports for two drives and you can
make right for with right single right
one
I also added a USB 2.0 card to the speed
up the usb since the original ones were
we're like a 12 mega rich USB so I'm
going to go ahead and try to install a
solid-state drive in this computer and
see how it behaves
we are going to put using the spinning
disk in order to format the solid Extang
right then remove the spinning disk and
put it back into the Mac once we burn
the DVD image for the solution
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booting with the traditional spinning
this took like two and a half minutes to
boot
in order to create the boot disk I'm
going to make two partitions in today
SSDs right one will be for the DVD image
for distillation and the other one will
be for the actual booting disk in the
Mac so once I have the two partitions in
the dead right I'm going to style the
DVD image into the first partition to
boot from there and once it boot from
the DVD image I'm going to install from
there into the second partition of the
computer I
didn't want to boot from the USB because
you seen that pendrive is going to take
way more times that using an internal
drive
so now I'm putting the SSDs right into
the Power Mac we won't need the second
right so I'm going to remove this cable
this computer didn't have a serial ata
drive so there is no serial ata
connector for the power zone I'm going
to use an adapter I won't secure the
drive since I'm not planning to use this
computer responding an experimental
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let's turn it on and see if we put from
the SSD drive I'm speeding up the video
because it takes about 25 minutes to
install the AOS
it takes 21 minutes if finished now
let's wait for the intro to finish
you
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let's respond some questions from the OS
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and
restart the computer and see how it
boots from the SSDs right for the first
time
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well it took one minute and three
seconds from that let's take apart 22
seconds from the open floor to perform
it it's out of test so it is about one
minute and 10 seconds to boot
I'm going to test copy these 3 gigabytes
files from the USB
this is using the USB 2.0 card not the
original 1.1 USB because it would take
like a Tuesday to copy
opening a 12 megapixel pictures about 20
mix inside in current for paint it takes
a few seconds it is fast enough
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I'm not sure what filters to apply in
order to taste hum how fast there is now
so well this video is all about putting
the SSD drive into the 2002 computer so
I got a latest Eric I
have installed 10 for fox browser since
Safari cannot be updated in order to
comply with the modern site and this
this browser works really nice
YouTube opens fine
I'm gonna see how it plays a video
I'm going to open an HD video to see if
it plays
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it is that we're in the HD resolution -
with the resolution is about 360
and
even that videos not playing very well
if you leave it a few seconds is going
to catch up with the framerate but it is
awful to see it like that
you
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going fullscreen gets a little bit lower
also with the same resolution of the
video
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let's try another test I'm going to open
our 4k video running from the FCC's
right and see if it opens
well it opens that's a progress but of
course it struggles to play a fairly
good frame rate
well we prove that it is possible to
install a solid-state drive into a 2002
Power Mac you will see an improvement
but I don't think we can use it as a
daily basis as a normal computer I will
leave you with these pictures of the
completely disable of the computer I
perform in order to clean it up and
think I'm going to take apart the power
supply and use it as a bench power
supply for my experiment I
don't think I can sell this computer to
anyone it's not even a vintage one or
collection computer tool I'm going to
just take it apart and take away the
power supply to use it in another
project thank you very much for watching
stay tuned thank you
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