question about adding ssds

[jetjaguar]

i currently have 4x1tb drives in my mac pro 09 and i was looking at the option of adding one or 2 ssds in my 2nd optical bay .. what is a good adapter to allow me to put 2 in there and also what else do i need in order to connect them ?? i do not have a raid card ... thanks

[jessica.]

Check out this thread:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=758672

Also look into icy dock products. That's what I have in my HDD bay sporting a SSD.

[jetjaguar]

thanks jessica:)

[jetjaguar]

another question .. has anyone used one of the maxupgrades maxconnect setup .. how do they stay in the optical slot .. there doesnt seem to be any mounting brackets ???

http://www.maxupgrades.com/istore/index.cfm?fuseaction=Product.display&product_id=188

talking about the the one for 2 ssds

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my two intel's are just sitting in the empty optical bay. They're not going anywhere as SSD's have no moving parts. Only reason to mount them would be for neatness.

[jetjaguar]

are you running 2x80s ? or 2x160s ?

what else do u need to run 2x ssds in the optical bay .. because isnt there a sata and power cable there already for another optical .. so u would
just need one more connection ? can you pull it off the motherboard ?

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I'm running 2x160. I don't use the superdrive so I'm using the power and sata from the extra slot and the built in drive.

are you running 2x80s ? or 2x160s ?

what else do u need to run 2x ssds in the optical bay .. because isnt there a sata and power cable there already for another optical .. so u would
just need one more connection ? can you pull it off the motherboard ?

[jetjaguar]

o ok.
hmm i guess i will need a sata card then for the 2nd ssd

[Transporteur]

I currently use one of these plus 3.5" to 5.25" brackets to mount two 2.5" drives in the lower ODD bay.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Images/Products/1035439-a.jpg

But because I'd like to add more 2.5" drives, this thing is going to replace the current carrier.

http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/16-119-012-S01?$S640W$

Power and SATA connectors are no big deal, since you can get adapters for almost every connection.
Just make sure how many drives you'd like to put in there, that makes recommendations much easier.

If you want to drive a RAID0 out of two SSDs, you definitely need a dedicated RAID card, otherwise the ICH10s maximum bandwidth of 660MB/s will throttle the SSD array.
Considering that you currently got 4 drives in your Pro which have an approximate bandwidth of 400MB/s, a single SSD would be possible without a RAID card.

nanofrog always recommends the ARC-1210 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816131003&Tpk=arc%201210) (or 1212) for the Mac Pro and such requirements. This is the way I'm going to get as soon as my 160GB are full.

[jetjaguar]

thanks.

I doubt Im going to use mroe than 2xssds .. probably just one and possibly down the road adding a 2nd one. now if i got that raid card would i switch all my hdds to it ? or just the ssds ??? and what else would i need to add just 2 ssds .. 2 sata cables .. where would i pull the power from ?