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Silentwave

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May 26, 2006
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Won't work, the 15000RPM drives are all SCSI Ultra 320, 640, or SAS, not SATA.

best you can do is a 10,000RPM for those, IIRC.
 

Makosuke

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Aug 15, 2001
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As said, SCSI does not equal SATA, which is what the internal drives on the Mac Pro use. If you want a 10K RPM drive, you can get a Raptor, but that's it.

Now, you can of course buy a SCSI card (I'm assuming there are some PCIe ones compatible with the Mac Pro out there), and then use whatever SCSI drive you feel like. If you're looking at 15K RPM drives for a computer that expensive, the added cost of the card shouldn't be a big deal.

Frankly, though, most high-end SCSI drives are optimized for server use, which is significantly different from single user use, even at the highest end. For that reason, you won't necessarily get that much more speed (if ANY) from a 15K SCSI drive than from a Raptor (which is single-user tuned), or for that matter one of the new 750GB Seagates or the upcoming 1TB Hitachi.
 
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