MaxUpgrades offers MaxConnect PCI Bay internal storage expansion assembly for G5 Power Macs. MaxConnect PCI Bay enable two additional hard disk drives to be mounted in the PCI Bay of G5 Power Macs. MaxConnect PCI Bay assembly is made of Aluminum.
MaxConnect PCI Bay assembly when used with MaxConnect CPU Bay mounting assembly for three SATA disk drives , a total of seven disk drives can be installed inside Power Macintosh G5, this will enable the user to set up RAID 5 inside Power Macintosh G5 with five SATA Hard Disk Drive along with a seperate boot drive.
| MaxConnect for Power Macintosh G5 PCI Express Series |
| MaxConnect for Power Macintosh G5 PCI-X Series |
The result below gives a comparison of data transfer rates of, five 500GB Hitachi SATA disk drive striped RAID 5. Test is run on Power Macintosh G5 2.0 GHz Dual with eight internal ports HighPoint 2220 SATA PCI-XCard (8 Independent Data Channels) installed in PCI-X slot 3 of the Power Macintosh G5 2.0 GHz Dual Processor
| MaxConnect P/N | MaxConnect with Optional Parts |
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| SZ-MCPCIXBAY1AL1 | MaxConnect PCI Bay Disk Drive Mounting Assembly for PCI-X G5
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| SZ-MCPCIXBAY2AL2 | MaxConnect PCI Bay Disk Drive Mounting Assembly for PCI-X G5
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| SZ-MCPCIEBAY1AL1 | MaxConnect PCI Bay Disk Drive Mounting Assembly for PCI-Express G5
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| SZ-MCPCIEBAY2AL2 | MaxConnect PCI Bay Disk Drive Mounting Assembly for PCI Express G5
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