Seeking info/advice on second drive installation

My daughter recently gave me her old G4/400 Tower to use at our vacation home. It has only a 20GB drive, and I want to add a second internal drive. In looking at the various Western Digital drives compatible with Macs, I can't tell if they come with cables, mounting screws, etc. Does the middle connector of the ribbon cable plug directly into the new drive or is an additional cable required?
As an alternative, could I hook up an external Firewire drive with OS X installed and designate that as the startup disk?
Whether I install a second internal drive or hook up an external FW drive, my ultimate goal is to get away from the original 20GB drive as the startup disk.
Any advice/info will be appreciated. Thanks.

The first thing that you have to bear in mind is that model of G4 will only support drives up to 128GB on the internal bus. You can install a larger drive, but only the first 128GB will be used. There are drives of 120GB and smaller still available on the market.
If you decide to go with the internal, the existing ribbon cable has the necessary connector for adding the second drive - it would go on the connector in the middle of the cable, and the added drive should be jumpered as Slave. Any retail box drives (as opposed to 'bare drives') will have the mounting screws in the kit.
Going to an external FireWire drive is fine - I'd suggest checking out the options at OWC as most of their external drives are guaranteed to be bootable. The advantage would be that you're not limited to drives under 128GB.
Either way, you can clone the existing boot drive onto the new one using Carbon Copy Cloner.
-Douggo

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