Apple Mac Upgrades - RAM, SSD Flash, External Drives and More

Boot Time - Mac OS X 10.3	L2 Cache	L3 Cache	Time, Sec.

Reference Apple Systems

PM G4/400 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	107
PM 2x G4/450 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM x2	0MB	95
Apple eMac G4/700	256k On Chip	0MB	69
Apple iMac G4/700 15"	256k On Chip	0MB	67
iMac 1GHz (167MHz Bus, 768MB RAM, GF4MX 32MB)	256k	0MB	68
PB G4 17" 1.33GHz (167MHz Bus, 512MB RAM, R9600 64MB)	512k On Chip	0MB	n/a
PM G5/1.6GHz (800MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	75
PM G5/1.8GHz (900MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	51
PM G5/2x 2.0GHz (1GHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	41

Acceleration Cards

OWC Mercury Extreme G4/700MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	101
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/800MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	101
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/800MHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	100
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	96
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	91
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.2GHz)	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	103
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.2GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	98
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.2GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	95
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz (@ 1.3GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	89
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.4GHz)	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	86
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.467GHz (@ 1.4GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	96
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.4GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	95
GigaDesigns G-Celerator Dual G4/1.0GHz @ 1.2GHz	256k x 2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	82
GigaDesigns G-Celerator Dual G4/1.2GHz @ 1.3GHz	256k x 2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	82
GigaDesigns G-Celerator Dual G4/1.2GHz @ 1.4GHz	256k x 2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	82

Time to boot into Mac OS X 10.3 (cold boot). Note: This test seems skewed because the G4 upgrade systems were using a FirmTek Serial ATA controller card and it seemed to add at least 30 seconds to the startup times. The G5 systems were using their own internal SATA controller that is built in.