At 7:09 PM -0800 1/10/10, Michael G.M. wrote:
Needing some suggestions or options for stacking HDDs in G3 and G4 PowerMacs that didn't come with the double-stack sleds. If there's any other ways or options for this other than the sleds (which I'll get from ebay's otherwise) I'd really, really like to know. I've googled and oogled many a time and wondered what could I use for SATA and ATA drives internally in G3 and G4 Macs. :P
I typically don't stack my drives in the G3 and G4 towers because I feel it's better to spread the heat out despite the fact that I have plenty of double sleds.
The majority of the longer two-drive cables I've seen (as opposed to the really short ones that most G4s came with) have *just* enough room to put two drives side by side if you flip the left hand drive upside down so its IDE pins are closer to the right hand drive's, and if you don't screw it down. Since my desktops don't move around much and I'm a bit of a cowboy when it comes to things like hard drive swaps I don't much mind that it's loose in there.
I still wish the standard cable had just a smidge more space between the connectors.
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