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SSD in a G4 cube? Here's a bracket!

Posted by: didius on 2016-07-09 04:49:55 I want to upgrade my G4 cube and put a SSD drive in it. Fitting the drive and it's SATA-IDE adapter isn't that easy because of the Cube's compactness. Which led me to design a bracket, download it on thingiverse 😉 . It fit's the cube nicely, both bottom and topbracket. PS: I also made an Radeon 7500 bracket for the cube.

Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2016-07-09 05:25:42 I assume that means you have a 7500 in yours? What did you do for heat-any mods?

Posted by: didius on 2016-07-09 05:37:07 I bought the spirica heatsink years ago (when it still was in stock). Here you can see some pictures of it. I don't have it cooled with a fan though, I have a fan on the bottom of my cube instead. (actually, someone should copy the spirica heatsink as an open design, then it could be cnc-milled at makerspaces)

Posted by: Elfen on 2016-07-09 06:46:48 Neat set up. I thought this was for a PATA SSD, but it is not though it would work with it as well. Or one could get an old PC 2.5 to 3.5 Hard drive/Floppy drive tray adapter and use that to install the PATA SSD.

Posted by: didius on 2016-07-09 06:57:13 I find PATA SSD very expensive (in price per MB) and hard to get. This adapter solution works great.

Posted by: Elfen on 2016-07-10 07:29:17 Q: Where did you get the adapter circuit board that does the conversion and how much as it?

Posted by: didius on 2016-07-10 09:04:22 You can get it very cheaply on eBay, I got mine imported from china for about € 4, works fine.

Posted by: rsolberg on 2016-07-10 09:34:42 I used the same or very similar adapter board in an iMac G4 for an OCZ SATA SSD and it's been running strong for over four years now. My bracket isn't as nice as yours though- it's made from Meccano!

Posted by: TimHD on 2016-07-10 21:06:40 You can get it very cheaply on eBay, I got mine imported from china for about € 4, works fine. Can you share a link or search title.

Posted by: didius on 2016-07-11 17:58:18 @TimHD: I bought the following one: ebay I must admit the solderjob is not perfect, maybe I will apply some more solder to the joins which have to little (my opinion). It works fine though.

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