Testing and improving a G5 Jive

Sonnet sell the G5 Jive, allowing to add 3 more drives in a G5. Kai, a Hardmac reader, bought one, and sent us his impressions. Here are the original, bare product, and the two drives our reader wants to add in his G5.


And here's another one installed in the G5, in front of the fans.

Whereas everything was working well, Kai was fed up with the G5 CPUs permanently turning faster. Because whatever they could say, the air input is strongly disturbed, which makes the CPU cooling more difficult. As he only needed two added HDs, he decided to modifiy his G5 jive. And here's the mode result.


He totally emptied the central piece so that the air would flow with no obstacle, and also painted it black [famous song inside...] so it won't be seen through the G5 front piece. Here it is back in the Mac.

For a single disk slot, his G5 got back to a sound level equal to was it was before. It's probably the best of compromises.