[X4U] SATA drives

[Richard Gilmore]

I put this

<http://www.g5drivebracket.com/>

And this

<http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1s2/>

Into my Dual G5 and now have three SATA drives in it and room for one more

= lots of storage






On 27/11/06 8:16 PM, "Ronald Steinke" <ronsteinke at mac.com> wrote:

> On 26 Nov, 2006, at 10:39, Jim Robertson wrote:
> 
> Are there any of these drives that I cannot physically put into my
> Dual G5?
> Will I have to reformat the drive to put it into my Mac Pro once I
> get it?
> 
> As far as I can tell from your posting, you have begun to reach the
> limit of storage on your present drives. I would wonder how much of
> that data is absolutely necessary and what part of it could be
> removed without causing severe loss to you.
> 
> My first recommendation is to consider buying a terrifically large
> hard drive in an external case, something around 500Gb, for storing
> all the extra files that you seem to have accumulated in your
> original and extra drives already.
> 
> If that isn't practical, then consider making DVD copies of your data
> and only inserting the disc that has the data that you need for that
> instance. This would require you to create a library list of data/
> disc to be able to locate the proper disc.
> 
> Other than those suggestions, I really don't have working ideas for
> such a problem as yours.
> 
> If you buy a new drive, it will normally be formatted for PC use from
> the factory. It's a built-in bias that we have to suffer with because
> of blind prejudice. Therefore, you WILL have to reformat it to be
> recognized by the G5.
> 
> As to which drives will fit, I think that as long as they are SATA
> and measure no more than the available space in your G5 chassis,
> there should be no problem.
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Richard Gilmore
Media Production Centre
Faculty of Education
University of Western Ontario
rgilmor at uwo.ca


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