![]() ![]() $4.99: 18″ SATA cable (right angle on one end, straight on the other… should have gotten the 24″ one.) the ones I got from newegg which were made in China… no idea if it makes any difference.) I basically did the same thing the guy did but I didn’t have any spare parts lying around so I was able to do it “right” by buying new parts that would fit without modification.Ģx$109: Seagate 500GB hard drive (These were made in Thailand vs. And here’s a guy who made things work with some spare parts and creative thinking. Here’s an easy off-the shelf solution, but it’ll cost you $69. But then, I found that you can actually use the space in the optical drive bay to add a fifth hard drive. So, originally, I was considering getting an external SATA enclosure taking advantage of the extra SATA ports on the Mac Pro motherboard. Unfortunately, I really want five slots to have one system drive and four data drives setup as a Raid 10. Thankfully, the Mac Pro has four hard drive slots. As such, I’ve been looking for more storage as well as how to archive old stuff that I don’t need to access much. I’ve been filling up hard drive space pretty quickly recently with all the HD video that I’ve been editing along with the Alissa and wedding pictures.
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