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You can put an SSD in a PPC G5 just as easily as a HDD. You just need to be sure to use a SATA I or SATA II SSD and not a SATA III as your boot drive.
The benefits are maybe, maybe a slight noticeable speed bump in performance and no moving parts like a HDD to wear out and cause heat.
Crucial and OCZ make some SATA II SSD's that are still available to buy.
The benefits are maybe, maybe a slight noticeable speed bump in performance and no moving parts like a HDD to wear out and cause heat.
Crucial and OCZ make some SATA II SSD's that are still available to buy.
Do you have a G5 PowerMac or G5 iMac?
If it is the former, any S-ATA 1.5 Gbps (S-ATA I) or S-ATA 3.0 Gbps (S-ATA II) SSD will do, since the PowerMac only has S-ATA 1.5 Gbps (S-ATA I) anyway, and S-ATA 6.0 Gbps (S-ATA III) SSDs are known to not work with that somehow.
The benefit would be a more responsive OS, faster loading times and feeling like having a new computer.
And to use a 2.5" SSD you need to have a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter (10 ) to put the SSD in and the adapter goes in one of the two slots for the HDDs.
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If it is the former, any S-ATA 1.5 Gbps (S-ATA I) or S-ATA 3.0 Gbps (S-ATA II) SSD will do, since the PowerMac only has S-ATA 1.5 Gbps (S-ATA I) anyway, and S-ATA 6.0 Gbps (S-ATA III) SSDs are known to not work with that somehow.
The benefit would be a more responsive OS, faster loading times and feeling like having a new computer.
And to use a 2.5" SSD you need to have a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter (10 ) to put the SSD in and the adapter goes in one of the two slots for the HDDs.
Advanced Search or MRoogle can also help you find similar threads while waiting for more answers.
As have been mentioned on this forum before the Intel 320-series seems like a safe card and there are loads of them on ebay.
I use it myself on one of my G5s and is very happy with it.
I use it myself on one of my G5s and is very happy with it.
Not really worth it with sata 1. Even sata 2 bottlenecks it. Maybe they sell a sata 3 pci card for G5's?
An SSD is worth it for the RANDOM access times, even on S-ATA 1.5 Gbps (S-ATA I) and S-ATA 3.0 Gbps (S-ATA II), as an SSD will be a lot faster in that regard compared to an HDD.
See below screenshots for a comparison between HDD and SSD random write and read times:
SSD
HDD
In this case, for the PPC, the OCZ in SATA I or II would be the preferred way to go. The 840's are SATA III and won't work; I even tried it just for fun knowing that my G5 wouldn't cooperate with it. I can get it to work as a secondary storage drive, but not as the boot drive.
Would a PCIe flash storage card even work with PCI or PCI-X, if the G5 is from before 10/2005?
Yes, but only in PCI-E PowerMacs, but they are not bootable.
Yes, but only in PCI-E PowerMacs, but they are not bootable.
Thus my question, as I still do not know, what exact model of PowerMac the OP has.
And there is nothing wrong with an S-ATA 1.5 Gbps (S-ATA I) or S-ATA 3.0 Gbps (S-ATA II) SSD, even if sequential read and write times are not as fast as on S-ATA 6.0 Gbps (S-ATA III), but then again the same could be said for S-ATA 3.0 Gbps (S-ATA II) being faster than S-ATA 1.5 Gbps (S-ATA I) and so on.
Ridiculous.
The OP has a DualCore PowerMac G5 from Oct 2005 with PCI-e slots, so that is good.
The OWC Accelsior PCI-e SSD card is stated for MacPro only, OSX 10.6.8 minimum https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/PCIe/OWC/Mercury_Accelsior/Tech_Specs
The Sonnet Tempo SATA cards start at SATA1 for the E2P but this card http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_sata_e4i.html the E4i gets SATA II 3.0 Gbps performancs and has a PCI-e x4 interface so it is not bottlenecked by the bus. It supports PowerMac G5 11,2 with 10.5x
So does the TempoSSD which allows you to mount a SSD drive directly on the card. http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempossd.html
Firmtek also has SATA II 3.0 Gbps cards compatible with the PCI-e PowerMacs http://firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-2me4-e/
and the PCI-X Pre-2005 PowerMacs http://firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-2se4/.
The OWC Accelsior PCI-e SSD card is stated for MacPro only, OSX 10.6.8 minimum https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/PCIe/OWC/Mercury_Accelsior/Tech_Specs
The Sonnet Tempo SATA cards start at SATA1 for the E2P but this card http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_sata_e4i.html the E4i gets SATA II 3.0 Gbps performancs and has a PCI-e x4 interface so it is not bottlenecked by the bus. It supports PowerMac G5 11,2 with 10.5x
So does the TempoSSD which allows you to mount a SSD drive directly on the card. http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempossd.html
Firmtek also has SATA II 3.0 Gbps cards compatible with the PCI-e PowerMacs http://firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-2me4-e/
and the PCI-X Pre-2005 PowerMacs http://firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-2se4/.