Joel
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Feb 6, 2007, 3:28 PM
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Re: [Bill Kinkle] Joel, any suggestions for adding HDs to a G5 tower?
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Hey Bill,
I added a G5 Drive Bracket and an IDE/ATA PCI card. I had all these ATA drive sitting around. It works great.
http://www.weddingfilms.com/G5_DRIVE_BRACKET.jpg
The controller is from SIIG
http://siig.com/...atid=103&pid=419
(If you need RAID or SATA they have those too - just make sure it says 'for Mac'.)
The drive bracket is from here:
http://www.g5drivebracket.com/
I used some longer ATA cables to get to the drives:
http://www.startech.com/...DERND36PWBL&c=US
(You can still get them even though it says 'unavailable'.)
For a while I also took the DVD burner out and put it in an external enclosure. Instead of the single port ata cable that connected the burner to the motherboard I put a master/slave cable on and hooked up two more ata drives. They sat in the space vacated by the burner perfectly. For a while I was running 7 drives internally. The throughput from the drives in the burner slot were just as good as the SATA and ATA on controller card.
Joel
"Think of this business as a room with a huge table and a bunch of chairs around the table. There is a big pie on the table. Your mission is to take your place at the table, pick up your fork, and eat your pie. Do not look to the left and do not look to the right. Just eat your pie. There is plenty of pie for everyone."
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(This post was edited by Joel on Feb 6, 2007, 3:55 PM)
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. I spent $100 on an entire aluminum case complete with killer 540w Antec PS and it handles 12 drives with ease (I have 8 installed, 4 of which are 15.3k rpm seagate scsi weapons on raid...very fast, and very hot). It has never overheated once, likely due to the 1.5 million different fans preinstalled 
