[majesticmac]

I bought a dual 2.5 with the new nividia card that will not ship unitl late October. I plan on buying the ram (4x1GB) and one hard drive, a sata 250 GB from online vendors. It comes with the 160 GB hard drive standard from apple.
I am going to use this for the new production suite with DVD, FCPHD and Motion. I am wondering now if it would be worth it or even possible to install another 250 GB hard drive for a total of 3 internal hard drives. Is this even possible, I do think I could use it, keeping multiple projects open.

[Lateralus]

Unfortunately not. The biggest gripe towards the G5 case is the lack of internal expandability. The previous G4 case, which was significantly smaller, had four hard drive bays and two optical drive bays.

There are third party solutions available that would allow you to add more internal drives to the G5, but they are very expensive.

[Skip Breakfast]

This particular gripe is probably THE reason why I won't buy another Power Mac until they resolve that issue. I will need drive bays far more than I will need PCI-X slots.

[misc]

A big firewire drive may be good for you though. Even if Firewire is too slow for your work you could always back up your 250 and 160 gb harddrive to it if you need the extra space.

Food for thought.

[dtriska]

Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
There are third party solutions available that would allow you to add more internal drives to the G5, but they are very expensive.

I don't think they're that expensive. A hundred bucks for the PCI card (ATA or SATA), and another hundred for a proper bracket to hold the drives. If someone's going to do professional work, $200 doesn't matter that much.

[macaddict0001]

or for that price you could get another drive.

[King_Rat]

Well, I think that you could get in 3 hard drives by removing the DVD drive and putting one where it was. Of course, I would think of this as being of about the same usefulness level as as taking the gas tank off a car in order to fit in a larger engine.