Apple iBook G3 booting from a CompactFlash SSD drive

No Hard Drive, No Fan. Silent Computing!

iBook SE PowerPC G3 - 366MHz, OS X Panther, 576 MB RAM

The boot drive is a Photofast G-Monster 533X SLC 8GB Flash Card, in a CF-IDE Hard Drive Adapter from Addonics Technologies.

If you ever wondered how fast a PowerPC Macintosh will boot from a solid state disk, this is for you.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Apple
• Mac
• Clamshell
• iBook
• Panther
• Classic
• SSD
• Compact Flash
• Photofast
• boot time

[helicoptered]

1. How much was the flash drive.

2. What is the read/write time.

3. Does the flash card require any additional battery back up.

Msg back

Thanks :)

[carlblemming]

@helicoptered The 8GB Photofast boot card was about $140, the 16GB card was $60, and the adapter was about $20. Not sure about the read/write speed, have not measured it.  At least at fast as a harddrive. And it needs no battery.

[R33Racer]

266? Says 366 in your discription. ???

[carlblemming]

This G3 chip is 366 MHz

[OhNoNotMyPenis]

my pentuim 166mhz 64mb ram boots windows xp faster than that on a 6gb HDD

[klopas666]

@MakingXboxLiveSafe your PC have a 366MHz, 576 MB RAM and mac os x panther?

guy, that iBook have more than 10 years...

[MakingXboxLiveSafe]

my PC starts up in 26.7 seconds.

[MyWonderApple]

i really want one of those clamshells

[Kyodaikuma]

Iawl a mac book pro 17 with photofast or runcore boots in 18 secs....

[deanwysocki]

nice