MaxConnect Internal hard disk drive mounting solution [Aluminum] for G5 Power Macs (PCI-X)
Put a 8-Drive RAID inside your Power Mac G5.
MaxConnect is an internal hard disk drive mounting solution, that
allows nine additional hard disk drives to be installed in a
Power Macintosh G5 system. The MaxConnect consists of three mounting
assemblies. An Optical Drive Bay Disk Drive mounting assembly that
enables four hard disk drives to be mounted in the Optical Drive Bay of
the Power Macintosh G5. A MaxConnect CPU Bay Disk Drive Mounting
Assembly that enables installing three hard disk drives in the CPU bay
of the Power Macintosh G5. MaxConnect PCI Bay Hard Disk Mounting Assembly that enables installing two additional hard disk drive in the PCI Bay of the Power Macintosh G5.
With the MaxConnect internal hard disk drive mounting
solution, a PowerMacintosh G5 can house a total of eleven disk drives
internally, which enables the system to boot from one drive and allows
the rest of the eight drives to be RAIDED (Stripped RAID Level 0) to
offer an 8X speed increase in the data tranfer rate compared to a
Power Macintosh G5 single drive. Transfer rates in excess of 500 MB/sec
sustained can be achieved by stripping the hard disk drive using Apple
MacOS X built-in RAID software utility on Power Macintosh G5 Systems
with PCI-X Slots.
The MaxConnect internal hard disk drive mounting solution
provides a practical, cost effective and space saving solution
for Power Macintosh G5 storage expansion without sacrificing the data
transfer rate. A total of nineteen hard disk drives (eleven disk drives
internally and eight disk drives externally) can be connected to a
Power Macitnosh G5 system, producing more than 18x performance increase in
sustained transfer rate.
To tap the full potential of G5 Power Mac to obtain faster data
transfer rates, along with MaxConnect disk drive mounting assembly the
following is also needed.
SATA PCI-X Card that adds two, four or eight independent data channels
to the G5 Power Macs, each channel can pump up to 60 MB/s of or more
data from main storage to the CPU.
SATA Data Cables to connect the PCI-X card Data Channels to the disk drives house in CPU or Optical Bay.
Power Cables to provide power to the disk drives housed in Optical or CPU Bay.
MaxConnect P/N
MaxConnect with Optional Parts
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MaxConnect CPU Bay Disk Drive Mounting Assembly [Aluminum] w/ Power Cables
Three Hard Disk Drive Mounting Brackets with Base Plate
15-Pin SATA Power Cable for supplying power to the three additional hard disk drives in the lower CPU Bay
Mounting Screws
Hex Keys
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MaxConnect CPU Bay Disk Drive Mounting Assembly [Aluminum] w/ SATA Data Cables/ Power Cables
Three Hard Disk Drive Mounting Brackets with Base Plate
15-Pin SATA Power Cable for supplying power to the three additional hard disk drives in the lower CPU Bay
Four SATA II or eSATA Low profile Data Cables
Mounting Screws
Hex Keys
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MaxConnect CPU Bay Mounting Assembly [Aluminum] w/ SATA Controller/SATA Data Cables/ Power Cables
Three Hard Disk Drive Mounting Brackets with Base Plate
15-Pin SATA Power Cable for supplying power to the three additional hard disk drives in the lower CPU Bay
4-Internal Ports SATA PCI-X Host Card
Four SATA II or eSATA Low profile Data Cables
Mounting Screws
Hex Keys
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New MaxConnect CPU Bay Disk Drive Mounting Assembly [Aluminum] w/Power Cables/Auxilary Cooling Fan
Three Hard Disk Drive Mounting Brackets with Base Mount
15-Pin SATA Power Cable for supplying power to the three additional hard disk drives in the lower CPU Bay
Auxilary Fan for cooling the Hard Drives
Mounting Screws
Hex Keys
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New MaxConnect CPU Bay Disk Drive Mounting Assembly [Aluminum] w/ SATA Data Cables/ Power Cables/Auxilary Cooling Fan
Three Hard Disk Drive Mounting Brackets with Base Plate
15-Pin SATA Power Cable for supplying power to the three additional hard disk drives in the lower CPU Bay
Four SATA II or eSATA Low profile Data Cables
Auxilary Fan for cooling the Hard Drives
Mounting Screws
Hex Keys
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New MaxConnect CPU Bay Mounting Assembly [Aluminum] w/ SATA Controller/SATA Data Cables/ Power Cables/Auxilary Cooling Fan
Three Hard Disk Drive Mounting Brackets with Base Mount
15-Pin SATA Power Cable for supplying power to the three additional hard disk drives in the lower CPU Bay
2-Internal Ports SATA PCI-X Host Card
Two SATA II or eSATA Low profile Data Cables
Auxilary Fan for cooling the Hard Drives
Mounting Screws
Hex Keys
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New MaxConnect CPU Bay Mounting Assembly [Aluminum] w/ SATA Controller/SATA Data Cables/ Power Cables/Auxilary Cooling Fan
Three Hard Disk Drive Mounting Brackets with Base Mount
15-Pin SATA Power Cable for supplying power to the three additional hard disk drives in the lower CPU Bay
4-Internal Ports SATA PCI-X Host Card
Four SATA II or eSATA Low profile Data Cables
Auxilary Fan for cooling the Hard Drives
Mounting Screws
Hex Keys
The result below gives a comparison of data transfer rates of 8 SATA
hard disk drives inside G5 Power Mac (Optical bay drive are running on
Auxiliary Power Supply) versus, six SATA disk drives striped
RAID 0. Test is run on Power Macintosh G5 2GHz Dual (June 2004 Model)
with two 4- internal ports SATA PCI-X Cards(8 Independent Data
Channels) installed in PCI-X slot 3 and PCI-X slot 2 of the G5 Power
Mac.
