6 drives in Mac Pro how?

[skippy911]

I see the 2 additional sata connectors on the mac pro mother board. Has anyone put 6 drives into their mac pro? If so how did you power it and place the drives. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also is there a way to do a raid 0 in windows xp for bootcamp to speed up things??

~skippy911

 

[kered22]

Well you can actually get 7 if you don't mind losing your optical drive.

http://www.hardmac.com/news/2006-10-04/#5993

 

[skippy911]

Interesting spot for the drives but it still doesnt show where he got his power for the 3 drives. I can see two from the molex but did he just use a spliter on one molex to power 2 drives at once or is there a power port just for those 2 extra drives?

 

[Macinposh]

Interesting spot for the drives but it still doesnt show where he got his power for the 3 drives. I can see two from the molex but did he just use a spliter on one molex to power 2 drives at once or is there a power port just for those 2 extra drives?

You have 2 molexes in the optical bay area, one being free and one being used by the DVD.
If you split the free one, and remove the DVD,then you´ll have 3 free for your HDD use.

 

[slughead]

Without altering the case or removing the optical drive, I got 5 in there:
http://www.tenthousandpercent.com/?article=65&section=other

 

[skippy911]

Without altering the case or removing the optical drive, I got 5 in there:
http://www.tenthousandpercent.com/?article=65&section=other

Lol awesome writeup thanks for the tips on what todo. Luckily I have some right angle sata cables at work to use so I dont have to break any