Are all bays created equal?

MacSince1985 · Aug 27, 2010, 01:08 PM

I bought a few hard drives to fill the bays in my new Mac Pro. Does it matter which drive I put in which bay? I'm considering:
- access speed (are all bays accessed at the same time or are some prioritized?)
- cooling (which bays stay cooler because of their proximity to fans?)

In other words, is there a preferred bay to put faster, heavily accessed drives vs. slower back-up drives?

Pressure · Aug 27, 2010, 01:13 PM

Nope, they all are equal.

Put them in, in whatever order you feel like

macz1 · Aug 27, 2010, 01:20 PM

The drives in the bays near the front of the computer stay a bit cooler, especially if you have many PCIe cards or a powerful GPU. But the difference is not very big.

Shademaster · Aug 28, 2010, 01:47 PM

Cool fact, if you have a software raid volume spread out over multiple HD's you can take ehm all out, swap ehm around and put them back in and they still work!

Aug 27, 2010, 01:08 PM	#1
MacSince1985 macrumors regular Join Date: Oct 2009	Are all bays created equal? I bought a few hard drives to fill the bays in my new Mac Pro. Does it matter which drive I put in which bay? I'm considering: - access speed (are all bays accessed at the same time or are some prioritized?) - cooling (which bays stay cooler because of their proximity to fans?) In other words, is there a preferred bay to put faster, heavily accessed drives vs. slower back-up drives?
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Aug 27, 2010, 01:13 PM	#2
Pressure macrumors 68040 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Denmark	Nope, they all are equal. Put them in, in whatever order you feel like __________________ Never Argue With An idiot. They'll Lower You To Their Level And Then Beat You With Experience!
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Aug 27, 2010, 01:20 PM	#3
macz1 macrumors 6502 Join Date: Oct 2007	The drives in the bays near the front of the computer stay a bit cooler, especially if you have many PCIe cards or a powerful GPU. But the difference is not very big.
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Aug 28, 2010, 01:47 PM	#4
Shademaster macrumors member Join Date: Dec 2009	Cool fact, if you have a software raid volume spread out over multiple HD's you can take ehm all out, swap ehm around and put them back in and they still work!
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