Hey guys, Alex here.
After getting everything in my 'new' G5 configured as I want it, I have made it my primary machine and it's pretty reliable. Fast enough for the non-CPU intensive tasks I perform everyday.
After upgrading the RAM, and adding another hard drive, I'm looking to add a Blu-Ray drive for this ol' PPC, as I want to be able to read/write Blu Ray discs. The problem that I am running into is that my G5 uses the extremely outdated IDE/ATA data connection, and it seems that all of the internal Blu-Ray drives are SATA.
After doing a bit of thinking, I realized that I have a PCI card for SATA drives that I used in my old G4 server before giving it a rest. Could I plug in a SATA Blu-Ray drive via the PCI SATA card and it function normally?
Or can someone point me at a decently-priced IDE/ATA Blu-Ray drive? Say $100-150?
EDIT 1: Just read online that it's completely possible to plug use a SATA Optical Drive in a G5, as long as I have a SATA cable long enough to run from the board to the front of the machine, or if I use a PCI SATA card (which is what I will be doing).
After getting everything in my 'new' G5 configured as I want it, I have made it my primary machine and it's pretty reliable. Fast enough for the non-CPU intensive tasks I perform everyday.
After upgrading the RAM, and adding another hard drive, I'm looking to add a Blu-Ray drive for this ol' PPC, as I want to be able to read/write Blu Ray discs. The problem that I am running into is that my G5 uses the extremely outdated IDE/ATA data connection, and it seems that all of the internal Blu-Ray drives are SATA.
After doing a bit of thinking, I realized that I have a PCI card for SATA drives that I used in my old G4 server before giving it a rest. Could I plug in a SATA Blu-Ray drive via the PCI SATA card and it function normally?
Or can someone point me at a decently-priced IDE/ATA Blu-Ray drive? Say $100-150?
EDIT 1: Just read online that it's completely possible to plug use a SATA Optical Drive in a G5, as long as I have a SATA cable long enough to run from the board to the front of the machine, or if I use a PCI SATA card (which is what I will be doing).
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