How many hard drives can you stuff in the MDD?

I know Apple supports 4 drives, but I'm sure it's possible to shove more in, is there?
The G5's can stuff lots of drives with the little amount of space they have..

AJ must be using tri-focal lenses or those
stereo-optical 3Ds ;-))
Or an alternate reality.
Hey now, thats my hometown you are talking about!
I have a 200, 2x80s raid, and a 30 in my MDD. Thats 4.
The 2x80s are in the front bays. The 200 & 30 are each on a single carrier in the bottom of the case.
The raid and the 200 are hosted by the Sonnet card. The 30 is on the motherboard.
If I trade out the flat carrier for H bracketes, I can get 2 more drives in there.
ummm...ok, thats 6, not 5. (public school math, what can I say? )
Now dump the optical drives, and you can have 2 more. You can connect them to the motherboard conroller (but they'll be slow) or add another controller card.)
So 8, assuming you have a 3rd party controller or two and a couple of 3.5->5.25 adapter brackets, a couple of Y power cables, and verify the power supply can feed it all, you can get up to 8 HDs in an MDD case.

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