G5 Jive is Money-well-spent
When I replaced the dual G4 with a 2×2Ghz G5 I was a little apprehensive about giving up the internal bays that I had grown to rely on.
I didn’t want to merely start slamming a bunch of firewire boxes across my desk, so I looked around at some of the options out there and I settled in on the G5 Jive from Sonnet.
I bought mine from MacSales, so I’m giving them a link. They were easy to buy from, shipped right away and everything was as expected, which is typically the way they deliver—they’re great.
So the G5 Jive lets you put another 3 SATA disks into the front of the G5 right behind the front vent. The disks seem to get plenty of air and the CPUs don’t seem to run any hotter for having them in there. My G5 runs 24×7 and does duty as household file server, media warehouse, and where I play World of Warcraft when I’m not up to my eyeballs in Xterms working on other things.
This gizmo is well-priced and the fit and finish were perfect. It looks and feels factory, which is nice. No need to tear out your optical drive with this add-on, so you lose nothing by going this route.
Easily the best way to remedy the fact that Apple doesn’t give you a method to put more than two fixed disks in a G5, which is idiotic since the machine is so damned big.