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power mac, how many hard drives?
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i got an ibok, not enough hard drive space, so im looking into buying a cheaper used power mac, how many hard drives can they hold? im pretty much just looking itnto useing it as a server, id like to put 4 200 gig in it if possible
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If you're talking about a G4 tower, they have four drive bays. The G5 only has two.
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so iw ant a g4? idk what one i want, im just trying to see how many hard drives each can hold and handle
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ALL G4 towers, plus the B&W G3's, support 4 HDD's, & some crafty modders have put 6 in them. G5's only have 2 standard mounts, but there are 3rd party mounts for up to 3 more 
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There are a variety of chassis upgrades to allow you to add extra drives to a G5 Tower.
maxupgrades.com allow you to add seven additional drives for a total of nine drives.
Remember that if you're upgrading a Dual Core G5 they use PCI Express (for your necessary SATA card.)
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Why not just get a G5 tower and put two 500 GB IBM Deskstars in it if space is what you want?
With a $99 G5 Jive adapter you can add three more SATA drives so you could
potentially have 2.5 terabytes in that thing.
If that's not enough, maxupgrades allows up to seven.
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cause 4 200 is cheaper then 2 400
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