I was replacing a hard drive in a G5 tower when I broke the power cable of one of the SATA drives (yeah I know, I'm very clumsy!). So I checked the drive and I saw the standard power adapter found in all hard drives, and I thought 'hey, perhaps I can split the power from the DVD drive and connect the SATA hard drive (and save $100 hehe!).
So that's what I did. I used a good old Y-splitter to split the power lead of the DVD drive, and then pass the connectors on the side of the G5, connecting it to the SATA hard drive. It's clean and it's working perfectly !
I hope this tip can "save lives" (or at least some bucks) for those who are very clumsy like myself.

