use for an aluminum g5?

[Dennis S]

I like number 3 except for the electrical usage.

[rz]

clay wrote:
2 internal drive bays, but there are 3rd party options to add more drives.

Uh, no there are 4 internal bays. I had 5 drives in my G5 (one was "on the floor" in front of the fan).

#1 is your best option, or give it to someone locally who doesn't have a computer. I doubt it's worth shipping though... postage will probably be more than it's worth.

[Chakravartin]

davemchine wrote:
2) Hackintosh it. I would use it primarily for handbrake but a brief web search seems to indicate this would be a large undertaking though.

This. Make it a summer project to gut it, make a new backplane and fit a PC in there.

rz wrote:
[quote=clay]
2 internal drive bays, but there are 3rd party options to add more drives.

Uh, no there are 4 internal bays. I had 5 drives in my G5 (one was "on the floor" in front of the fan).
You are probably thinking of a G4 tower.

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1305

Inside your Power Mac G5

Your Macintosh has three internal drive bays: one optical drive bay and two hard drive bays.

[clay]

Chakravartin wrote:

[quote=rz]
[quote=clay]
2 internal drive bays, but there are 3rd party options to add more drives.

Uh, no there are 4 internal bays. I had 5 drives in my G5 (one was "on the floor" in front of the fan).
You are probably thinking of a G4 tower.

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1305

Inside your Power Mac G5

Your Macintosh has three internal drive bays: one optical drive bay and two hard drive bays. :agree:

rz must have had a different G5 than I did...one of the models with extra special built-in expansion designed by Steve Jobs himself :-)

[ka jowct]

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]

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

[clay]

Mr645 wrote: 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.

[Speedy]

Can't see his extension cord. I bet its a 10 guage.

haikuman wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]

Thats just wrong ~!~!~!~ :devil:

[davemchine]

I opened the case tonight and there are only two drive bays so using it to hold backup drives is probably not realistic. So most of my ideas are out the window. I'm leaning towards popping in a couple decent drives, installing whatever version of osx it supports, and giving it to a friend.


1) ship to bro-possibly too expensive
2) Hackintosh it-looks very complicated
3) Backup file server-not enough drive bays
4) OS9-not capable

[Racer X]

haikuman wrote:
Racer X has my G5 he may have some ideas *(:>*

When I retire it, I'm gonna gut it, and put in a mini. I'll send you pics Rudie. I'll even hook up the optical drive and ports through hubs.