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I have a 5,1 MacPro with 2 x 1Tb HD drives in Bays 1 and 2.
Bay 1 has OSX and Bay 2 has Win 7 (set up via bootcamp).

I am considering buying 2 SSDs (probably Samsung ones) and then cloning my OSX drive to one and my Win7 to the other. Effectively replicating exactly what I have currently only onto SSDs. I would then run everything on the SSDs and keep the 2 HD drives as backups/storage.
Would I have any problems with this?
Should I keep the SSDs in drive bays 3 and 4 or use pcie, say 2 of the Apricorn Solo x2 cards? Apart from the speed boost is there anything else to be aware of?
Lastly, what sort of boot time is possible with these two methods?
 
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I have a 5,1 MacPro with 2 x 1Tb HD drives in Bays 1 and 2.
Bay 1 has OSX and Bay 2 has Win 7 (set up via bootcamp).

I am considering buying 2 SSDs (probably Samsung ones) and then cloning my OSX drive to one and my Win7 to the other. Effectively replicating exactly what I have currently only onto SSDs. I would then run everything on the SSDs and keep the 2 HD drives as backups/storage.
Would I have any problems with this?
Should I keep the SSDs in drive bays 3 and 4 or use pcie, say 2 of the Apricorn Solo x2 cards? Apart from the speed boost is there anything else to be aware of?
Lastly, what is the fastest boot time possible with these two methods?
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Yes you can clone (I use SuperDuper) to clone an OSX drive to another. I've never really tried using SuperDuper to do Windows 7, but I can't imagine it would be any different (as long as you did the clone while logged into OSX).
 
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Many thanks for responses so far.
So winclone seems to be the app of choice to clone a windows only drive to an ssd.
From reading around various threads it seems the best place for an ssd boot drive is connected to a drive bay (sata). Then reading and writing to an ssd on the pcie bus.
 
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Should I keep the SSDs in drive bays 3 and 4 or use pcie, say 2 of the Apricorn Solo x2 cards? Apart from the speed boost is there anything else to be aware of?
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When I bought my second Apricorn Velocity Solo x2, my thinking went like this:

The Solo x2 is $90., an adapter to fit an SSD into one of the internal HDD Sleds was $20. Why not spend the extra $70. on another Solo x2, and have superior performance and gain another slot for an internal drive. It was a no brainer for me.

And there's another avenue. If your trying to keep the costs down, you could get a Solo x1 for $49.00, slower interface but then only $30 more than the 2.5" adapter.

Lou
 
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flowrider said:
When I bought my second Apricorn Velocity Solo x2, my thinking went like this:

The Solo x2 is $90., an adapter to fit an SSD into one of the internal HDD Sleds was $20. Why not spend the extra $70. on another Solo x2, and have superior performance and gain another slot for an internal drive. It was a no brainer for me.

And there's another avenue. If your trying to keep the costs down, you could get a Solo x1 for $49.00, slower interface but then only $30 more than the 2.5" adapter.

Lou
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Thanks Lou.
Yeah I see your angle. I was thinking to achieve min boot time, to keep one ssd on the sata. Then I could use another ssd on a Solo x2 for storage of files and even my most used apps. I was thinking a 256Gb for the boot ssd and a 512Gb for my files etc on the solo x2.
 
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Thanks Lou.
Yeah I see your angle. I was thinking to achieve min boot time, to keep one ssd on the sata. Then I could use another ssd on a Solo x2 for storage of files and even my most used apps. I was thinking a 256Gb for the boot ssd and a 512Gb for my files etc on the solo x2.
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Boot time for me is very fast with the Solo x2. Yes, it takes longer for the OS to locate the drive, but once it's found, boom. I think I remember timing it once, and I got to the desktop in 32 secs after button push. Also, there's another option, if the pennies are really tight. You could get a Solo x1 for $49.00. A slower interface than the x2, but then only $30.00 more than the adapter.

Lou
 
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Out of interest what sort of boot time do you get from ssd in sata drive bay?
 
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