MaxUpgrades announces availability of MaxConnect Lite, a CPU Bay internal storage expansion assembly for G5 Power Macs. MaxConnect Lite is made of PolyAcetal a ThermoPlastic known for its high strength and stiffness.
MaxConnect Lite, a CPU Bay internal storage expansion assembly enables three additional disk drives to be housed in the lower CPU bay. To power the additional three hard disk drives in the lower CPU Bay, optional custom power cables are included that splits power from the optical drive connector, power from the optical drive bay is routed into the lower CPU Bay via power cable that provides power to the three additional drives with standard hard disk 4-pin connectors.
MaxConnect Lite offer industrial strength design with four bolt hard disk drive attachments, its unique design exposes maximum area for heat dissipation for the attached hard disk drives.
Sustained data transfer rates up to 250MB/s can be attained on the G5 Power Macs with PCI-X slots by adding four independent data channels via PCI-X SATA host Adapter and with additional SATA hard disk drives installed with MaxConnect internal storage expansion assembly, each independent data channel is capable of pumping data up to 60 MB/s or when four disk drives are striped together RAID 0, sustained data transfer rate is quadrupled (up to 250 MB/s) of internal storage system of the G5 Power Mac, compared to single internal stock drive of the G5 or external storage via Firewire 800 or FireWire 400 disk storage (both Single or RAID).
MaxConnect Lite offers enormous performance advantage by giving 4x increase in sustained data throughput on G5 Power Mac with PCI-X slots, it also offer most cost effective and space saving solution in the industry.
MaxConnect Lite is priced at $74 (Bare Assembly), for other options and ordering information:
http://www.maxupgrades.com/
I like the idea, but I would be worried about the about of heat that many drives would produce.
I think an external enclosure with it’s own power supply and connected by SATA would be a better setup.
CampusComputerStoreGuy,
The heat of that many extra drives is bad enough, but add in the decreased airflow, and I think it would be way too much.
Good call.
Who really thinks that putting all those disk drives in that case is a good idea?
Apple’s case is fine tuned to handle the heat of what comes from the factory plus basic upgrades. Any case that has to have a rubber seal to ensure heat moves out properly isn’t something to mess with.
If you need that thoroughput, then you should be able to afford an external case
Sum Dum Guy,
That’s what I meant
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For my dual 2.3, I ordered mine tonight. Can’t wait to fill my G5 with WD 320s!