You really should post your question in regular hardware forum
 

Anyway Software Raid is slower and not OS independent and limits you to the type of Raid you can do usually 0 or 1 to be effective. Speed or Mirroring respectively.

The G5 for now as it exists now as a single major design flaw room inside for only two drives.

The best Deal on the market for an elegant solution comes from wiebetech that sells a replacemnt door air bafle that allow you mount two more drives there. It is sold with and with out drives and raid card:

http://wiebetech.com/products/G5Jam.html

There is a lot of good info on raid options and testing available on barefeats.com.

There are many other options of external raid, SCCI, Firewire, SATA Eternal Cabling which is sort of a trick too. Barefeats and others have found some performance issues with Firewire raid on G5s. External Raid enclsures that are Capable of meeting a 4 drive Internal raid tend to be signifinicantly more expensive.

As far as drive that equals a raid thats just not reality. That said Drives have gotten markedly faster over the years. You would have to evaluate what you need to do that requires speed or redundancy of raid.

New new G5
 

Well, last thursday I ordered a Dual 1.8GHz 90nm G5 through the apple education store. I added the option of the ATI 9600XT card, which because it is now build-to-order, delayed it from same-day shipping to 5-7 day wait.
I know it's nothing compared to the original G5 shipping dates though.

I also ordered RAM for it, but I didn't notice until a few days later reading some technical documentation (as it's not obvious at all) that it requires pairs of identical chips. Oops. Dealram.com got me two 512MB chips for 79 each (I ordered the second one a few days later after realizing that only one would do me no good).

The moral of this story: if you need your G5 now, don't BTO it. If you buy memory, as the first post here indicates, buy it in identical pairs.

Hmmm...

I thought all G5's ran dual channel memory, which made you put it in pairs.

Is that not correct?

No, that's correct. All G5s currently out must have memory added in pairs.

Trevor

Installing 10.2.8 on new 2x 1.8 G5
 

This is kind of a new thread--sorry but i need help.

I just got a dual 1.8 G5 at work. It came with 10.3.4 but I want to be able to boot 10.2.8 on another partition for testing purposes. I do not have an installer later than 10.2 (G5 won't boot from this CD) or earlier than 10.3.

I have tried cloning my old G4 10.2.8 partion, but I can't boot from it. I tried running the 10.2.8 G5 updater on this partition and it won't let me do it.

Does anyone know how to get 10.2.8 to work on a new G5 that did not come with 10.2.7 or 10.2.8?

Myself and 2 others I kow would gratly appreciate any help.

You should really start a new thread with this problem.

(The quick answer is, original G5s came with a special version of 10.2.7, you will have to purchase a legal copy of it from someplace like eBay. Maybe others in the new thread can point you in the right direction.)

you're right. I posted a new one. thanks.

Final Tip
 

Get one while stocks last :D

G5
 

Just bought a new 17" G5 iMac. When you set up, the computer prompts if you want to transfer files from another computer via Firewire. Worked like a charm! All files from my G4 PowerBook were transferred clean (Safari settings, addresses, websites, software, fonts, etc.).
Mine had Microsoft Office software tryout installed. If yours does too, DON'T OPEN THE TRIAL VERSION! if you have Office installed on your old computer.
Once you have successfully transferred your software, and have Office OSX or Office 2004, trash the trial version before opening yours. Otherwise, you will have to reinstall your own software if you opened the trial version, even if you trashed it after opening it.

From a G3 to a G5
 

Will Target Disk Mode work for us folks who are switching from a G3 running OS X.2.8 to a new G5. I gather that it's the G5 that has to be run in Target Disk Mode while the G3 is booted as usual. My G3 has OS X.2.8.

Also, how would I go about transfering my Safari 1.0.3 Bookmarks, Keychain passwords, Entourage e-mails, Netscape e-mails, etc. to the new G5. In other words, where are these files located on the old G3 and can they simply be coppied into a corresponding location on the new G5?

supported' video cards
 

Ok the Apple PowerMac G5 PCI/PCI -X with AGP 8X (aka pro) Will work with nVidia G4 Ti even thought it is AGP 4X. In-fact the AGP G5's will work with any Apple supported Video card that is AGP 8X or X4. The only loss is Quartz Extreme (in some case's) I am running a Apple nVidia GeForce 6800 GT DDL.
in My 2.5 G5 that card is AGP 8X I also have a G4 1.42GHz PowerMac Mirror Door
With AGP 4X running the same nVidia G4 Ti 128MB I upgraded it to from the ATI 9000 Pro. Well when I read this I know I have used the nVidia G4 Ti 128MB in the G5 so I tried again & I can even type on a G5 advice sight with the nVidia G4 Ti 128MB in the AGP 8X G5 PowerMac! I will now switch back to the GeForce 6800 GT DDL.
Thanks,
Tom

I'm thinking the time has come to unsticky this thread. It will obviously still be searchable.

Let me know if there are any objections.