[G4] two 500 gb drives

[John Niven]

I don't have anything latter than a GE tower, but you just need drive trays for the front two drive positions. They are really more or less just a flat sheet of steel that you screw to the bottom of  the drive, then slide in and secure with a screw same as the main dual ata one. look on eBay, they should be cheap.

I have one machine with three SCSI drives mounted that way. I also have one with two 18Gb SCSI drives forward mounted and a 120Gb on the internal ATA. The SCSI are RAID 0 striped and are the fast boot volume, the 120Gb stores files :-)


--- On Tue, 5/6/08, Al Poulin <alpoulin at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Al Poulin <alpoulin at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [G4] two 500 gb drives
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 1:08 PM
> On May 6, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
> 
> > But wouldn't three internal drives mean extra
> mounting hardware?
> > My suggestion would be that with two 500 GB drives,
> the 40 GB is
> 
> Need to do something, but it is doable.  My QuickSilver 733
> book shows  
> three drive positions 1,2, and 3 from front to back across
> the  
> bottom.  Position 3 is usually for one or two ATA drives,
> with the  
> sled for both.  Drive positions 1 and 2 are usually for
> SCSI drives.   
> But the space is otherwise not occupied.  I've read
> about people using  
> that space for extra ATA drive(s), just sitting loose or
> somehow secured in a jury-rig fashion.  Cardboard and
> popsicle sticks?.
> 
> Al Poulin
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