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Re: use for an aluminum g5? - Mr645 - 07-27-2013
clay wrote:
[quote=Mr645]I've got 5 HDs in mine, courtesy of a Jive bracket. One of these days when I have lots of extra time, I have to remove some of those drives and put them to different use.
Mr645 wrote:
The stock G5 holds 2 drives and the G5 Jive bracket adds space for three more, 5 total. I tried putting a drive above the optical drive but it runs too hot up there. But with the bracket you can fit 5 4TB drives inside a G5 tower and the power supply and overall construction makes for a well built, very reliable server
I'm not gonna argue that there weren't sweet tools for adding a bunch of drives internally to G5's, but if you're starting from scratch, it probably isn't worth the time/cost to find those brackets, cables, and other stuff to make it all work. Don't forget about a PCI-x card to drive the SATA drives, etc. Even putting $50 into a machine like this is not worth it in my opinion.
Agreed. I may have replaced those G5 servers with something else if it were not for the PCI-X cards that wont fit anything else