2TB Raid5 in a G5

Then I found it, the G5Jive It's a simple little metal chassis that holds three drives and sits in the empty space in front of the fans INSIDE my G5. It takes a little bit of reconfiguring the power cables, and you have to remove the optical drive to install it, but once it's in, it's perfect. It runs off the power supply already going into the G5, so no big bricks in the wall, and everything is hidden away, inside the computer. Combine that with the extra drive space in the G5 next to the boot drive, and I've got 4 empty slots, ready for drives. Plus it was cheaper than any external enclosure I found, with our without the RAID controller. $80. Lovely (obviously this only works for you if you've got a G5, but I do, so... Lovely.)

Treemeat: Text: I got 98 problems, but lack of space ain't one.

Great piece about installing an internal RAID 5 array in a PowerMac G5. If you've seen the screencast about the firewire enclosure this is the next step up. More expensive but gives you the benefit of RAID 5 so no worries about any of the disks crashing as you could rebuild a disk nad recreate your data quite easily.

Ah well, perhaps when my 1TB JBOD array fills up I could consider this!

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