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2.8TB in a Power Mac G5?

Posted by pudge on from the yes-have-some dept.

Pfhreak writes "Bare Feats has a couple of reviews: one of WiebeTech's G5Jam, and one of the Swift Data 200. Both add extra drive space to a G5. The G5Jam puts two extra drives in the space that would be taken up by long PCI cards, so you'll be limited to the shorter cards in two of the three PCI slots. The Swift Data puts three drives in the space in front of the CPU fans. The writer of the Swift review has an interesting thought in the conclusion: 'Hey! Maybe I could install both the G5Jam and the Swift -- that would give me 7 drives -- and if I get seven 400GB Hitachi 7K400s, that's 2.8 Terabyte total -- Moo hah hah!'"

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  1. 2.8 TB? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    2.8 Terabytes?! I thought a 1.4 MB floppy was enough for just about anybody.

    1. Re:2.8 TB? by Altus · · Score: 3, Funny


      oddly enough... although there is enough space for the 7 harddrives nceessary to get to 2.8 TB there is not enough space left for a 1.4MB floppy drive! :)

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    2. Re:2.8 TB? by Greedo · · Score: 4, Funny

      A floppy drive ... on a Mac? Now that's news that matters!

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  2. Limits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    2.8 Terabytes and still only one free hand...life's just not fair.

  3. Ahh yes, it's time once again... by piecewise · · Score: 2, Funny

    ha ha ha ha.

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  4. Re:Sweet Jebus... by Strange+Ranger · · Score: 3, Funny

    > ..if they didn't go into the exact same space.

    Did you miss the fact that the poster states he is directly quoting the author of both articles? Whom it seems had far more to go on than pictures.

    > They'll let anybody post these days, won't they?

     Oh fer sure! But we'll mod you Flamebait.

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  5. MOO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Moo hah hah!"

    Not to be overly picky, but the correct usage is Mwahaha!. Moo hah hah makes you sound like a retarded cow.

    1. Re:MOO! by jellomizer · · Score: 3, Funny

      Moo hah hah makes you sound like a retarded cow.
      A retarded cow that is pretty bad because normal cows a already really dumb.

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  6. Re:More drive space is always nice by Valar · · Score: 2, Funny

    *applause*

    And, by the way, the reason they don't do RAID in the powermacs is because they already offer RAID in their real power user machine... the xserve. Of course, g5 xserves don't appear to be happening (ship date gets pushed back, back, back) anytime soon.

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  7. Oh yeah! by Dr.+q00p · · Score: 1, Funny

    A 2,8 TB floppy drive....now that would be something. Actually, a 1,44TB one would be ok too...