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well, they did ... something ... to the new PM's
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if you notice, the line before could hold 480GB in internal, ATA drives with no additional controler cards, just like the XServe, since they are sopposedly using the same "System Controler".
The new PM's can hold 720GB of data in internal ATA HDD's.
That kinda shows that they did at-least-something to upgrade them (apart from the moderate speed bump).
expect XServe updates soon ?
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Originally posted by Sarc:
if you notice, the line before could hold 480GB in internal, ATA drives with no additional controler cards, just like the XServe, since they are sopposedly using the same "System Controler".
The new PM's can hold 720GB of data in internal ATA HDD's.
That kinda shows that they did at-least-something to upgrade them (apart from the moderate speed bump).
expect XServe updates soon ?
I'm guessing they're taking into account 200GB hard drives. The built in hard drive is 120GB, plus if you add three 200GB hard drives, that comes out to 720GB in total, whereas previously it came with 120GB built in, and adding three more 120GB drives would yield a total of 480GB.
I think previously Apple just calculated on the basis of 120GB being the largest ATA drives out there (which was probably the case when the previous line came out).
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yup you got it.
You can also store a total of a whooping 800gb of data in a mdd g4.
However the g4 quicksilver is still one of the best (similar g4 models with the same internal space apply).
Except you need additional ATA controllers, this is what you can shoot for:
5 hard drives on bottom (buy an additional "double height" bay)
1 hard drive in zip bay.
6*200 = 1200gb 
And with the advent of the ATA cards that can hold laptop hard drives you can load a g4 up really heavily 
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Originally posted by Mac Zealot:
Except you need additional ATA controllers, this is what you can shoot for:
5 hard drives on bottom (buy an additional "double height" bay)
1 hard drive in zip bay.
6*200 = 1200gb
And with the advent of the ATA cards that can hold laptop hard drives you can load a g4 up really heavily
Can the standard power supply handle 6 hard drives (plus an ADC monitor, plus an optical drive, plus video card, plus ATA cards...)?
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Originally posted by Mac Zealot:
Except you need additional ATA controllers, this is what you can shoot for:
5 hard drives on bottom (buy an additional "double height" bay)
1 hard drive in zip bay.
6*200 = 1200gb
And with the advent of the ATA cards that can hold laptop hard drives you can load a g4 up really heavily
how'd you fit another double height bracket in the bottom? i was putting in a 2-80gb RAID in my sawtooth, 2 drives stacked in the double bracket, and i couldn't get it to fit in either of the two slots available. it looked like it would fit the best at the area closer to the front of the computer, but there was some metal bracket in the way. 
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