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How many drives can I put in a G4 AGP Sawtooth?
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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I currently have two WD 100 IDE drives in my G4 AGP Sawtooth, but would like to add two more from a different machine.
Is it possible to add another drive tape?
Is there enough power available from the power supply?
Would I HAVE to sacrifice the other drives (CD/DVD RAM and ZIP)?
Thanks in advance for any information you can provide - I am clueless!
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Stockholm Sweden
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I have seen several reports on 4 HDs all you need is a Y cable for the power and a IDE PCI card. I have also read about people cramming a drive bot in the zip bay and on top of the optical drive for a total of 6 drives. However there must be a point were starting all those drives at the same time must tax the supply...
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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i have 5 drives in my sawtooth. two on on-board IDE, two on PCI RAID card (all four drives line the bottom), one FW internal on top of optical drive (using IDE/FW bridgeboard and internal FW port...yay sawtooth!  ) didin't put the drive in the zip area, since i have a zip 250 installed.
works great, no problems here. you're gonna need some Y-cables, though.
tr
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Originally posted by tr:
i have 5 drives in my sawtooth. two on on-board IDE, two on PCI RAID card (all four drives line the bottom), one FW internal on top of optical drive (using IDE/FW bridgeboard and internal FW port...yay sawtooth! ) didin't put the drive in the zip area, since i have a zip 250 installed.
works great, no problems here. you're gonna need some Y-cables, though.
tr
That is great! Thanks for the information - I couldn't find it anywhere!
So to recap I will need:
PCI RAID card and 1 Y cable (for the PCI card?)
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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You just might want to get a larger drive, though, unless you want to hook up 4x/6x 160GB Drives, or if you're going to do a RAID setup (in which case you'd need a RAID card anyway).
There have been some reports (can't remember on which board, though) about heat issues. Haven't heard about power supply stress problems yet, though.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Apr 2000
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In my Sawtooth (237 W PSU), I have a DVD-ROM, CD-RW, three internal hard drives, and an external SCSI hard drive (external PSU).
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