aitikin Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 I'm helping my boss out by adding a couple of HDs to his G5, but I don't know what PCI(e) to SATA cards work. I'm not sure right now whether he has PCI or PCIe, but I'm finding out. What cards have you guys gotten to work on PPC systems? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121065-g5-hard-drive-upgrade/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrock42 Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 there are some Sonnet and IOgear cards on newegg that I used with my G5. I dont think they have PCIe x1. Actually my g5 had PCIX which was stupid and apple got rid of pretty quick. What flavor G5 is it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121065-g5-hard-drive-upgrade/#findComment-856854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aitikin Posted August 27, 2008 Author Share Posted August 27, 2008 It's a PCI-x G5. Sorry it took so long for me to get back, it's been chaotic around here and for some reason, I didn't get notified of your reply like I normally do. Will check those out on NewEgg. EDIT: Also, as he doesn't use the Superdrive that's built-in (the computer is too far away to make it practical) I was wondering if we could skip the whole 70 dollar mounting thing and just put the two drives in that space? Just a thought. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121065-g5-hard-drive-upgrade/#findComment-870538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolied Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 there are some Sonnet and IOgear cards on newegg that I used with my G5. I dont think they have PCIe x1. Actually my g5 had PCIX which was stupid and apple got rid of pretty quick. What flavor G5 is it? PCI-X is not stupid if the computer is a] a server; or b] a workstation. Since the Power Mac G5 is solidly in the b] classification, PCI-X is a VERY appropriate expansion bus to use a] because alot of server/workstation cards are PCI-X, and b] PCI-e hadn't seen widespread adoption yet when your machine was built and aside from x16 graphics cards, there really weren't any cards for the other PCI-e slots. Also note, even though most server/workstation motherboards support PCI-e nowadays, MOST of them also include at least one 100MHz or 133MHz PCI-X slot. Some, such at the Supermicro i'm linking below, have as many as 4 (2 133MHz, 2 100MHz): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813182108 Every HP Proliant DL380 Gen 5 i've ordered in the past year have had a couple of PCI-X slots. So PCI-X is far from stupid, Apple just 'got rid of it' because PCI-e became widespread, and most PCI-e peripherals are quite a bit cheaper than the PCI-X equivalent. Also, with only 3 open expansion slots in a Mac Pro, in this day and age going all PCI-e is the only logical choice. But i'm willing to bet if the Mac Pro had a 7 or 8 slot motherboard, there'd be a PCI-X slot somewhere in there. One of the 2 PCI-e slots on an Xserve is a convertible slot, so it'll handle either a PCI-e x8 card, or a 133MHz PCI-X card. So Apple didn't necessarily drop PCI-X. Actually, the configurable slots are quite common on 1U high servers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121065-g5-hard-drive-upgrade/#findComment-879054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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