I'm planning on buying a G4 Cube as soon as the ATI Radeon card is available as an option. I'm hoping that will be one of the announcements at the Paris Expo on the 13th. He also noted that the 40GV has an areal density of 20 GB per platter, whereas the 75GXP has the less dense 15GB platters. Interesting, perhaps IBM 'de-strokes' the 45GB drive into a 40GB model for OEMs. However due to other cabling issues I opted to install it in the top-most drive bay, displacing the floppy drive.
Drive works like a champ there.
Backups occur at approx. I'm guessing this is related to the hardware compression. If the game is stuttering for you, especially when loading levels, here's a surprising culprit. Once you do this, you should notice an immediate performance boost. If you've upgraded the CPU on your Mac, please post an entry in the database.