PowerPC G5 File Server

Brannigan's Law said:

I'm looking to do a RAID 1 with two Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s hard drives on an old PowerPC G5. From what I understand, this machine does not support SATA II. However, SATA II is backwards compatible with SATA I, so in theory this should work, it will just be slightly slower.

Does anyone have any experience with this? The G5 Specs are below.


Hardware Overview:

Model Name: Power Mac G5
Model Identifier: PowerMac11,2
Processor Name: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 2
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 8.5 GB
Bus Speed: 1 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.7f1


Serial-ATA Bus:

Maxtor 6L160M0:

Capacity: 152.67 GB
Model: Maxtor 6L160M0
Revision: BANC1GA0
Serial Number: L30A6KLG
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Protocol: ata
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Serial-ATA
Bay Name: "A (upper)"
Mac OS 9 Drivers: No
Partition Map Type: APM (Apple Partition Map)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified

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TacticalDesire said:

If you going to do a raid 1 setup with those drives, get a third one to have on standby in case one of them fails.

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wobegong said:

RAID 1 is mirroring, it's RAID 0 thats striped.

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GermanyChris said:

Read the wisdom of the internet when it comes to those drives and Power Mac's. I know they're a good price but...

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