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Apple Building 2TB Solid State Drives for Next Mac Pro Release?
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Beat me to it! It would be totally asinine for Apple to release a new architecture machine and stick SATA based solid state drives in it.
On the flip side I'm not sure why people seem to think that these drives would automatically be expensive as Apple continues to drive down the cost of flash storage on its machines. In reality they have very good deals at release time. By the time the mac Pro actually comes out these could be $500 drives, Ok maybe $1000 drives with Apples Tax. However the point is that flash drives don't have to be expensive and if he technology is all Apples, remember Anobit, they don't have to pay for somebodies else development costs.
On the flip side I'm not sure why people seem to think that these drives would automatically be expensive as Apple continues to drive down the cost of flash storage on its machines. In reality they have very good deals at release time. By the time the mac Pro actually comes out these could be $500 drives, Ok maybe $1000 drives with Apples Tax. However the point is that flash drives don't have to be expensive and if he technology is all Apples, remember Anobit, they don't have to pay for somebodies else development costs.
SATA? For the price and size of the Mac Pro, PCIe is the way to go, and there are already 2TB PCIe drives, and they work on Hackintoshes.
http://www.oczenterprise.com/interfaces/pci-express.html
Since ages ago. My 1997, 1999 and 2003 "pro" machines all had Apple-branded drives. I haven't bought one since but am hoping to change that...
Why? 2 TB of solid state memory is overkill, especially for what Apple's likely to charge for it. It'd cost more then the core Tower. Graphics card included.
A 2 TB Fusion type drive, now that I could see.
A 2 TB Fusion type drive, now that I could see.
No need to get an apple drive. Buy a good drive like a samsung 830/840 or an intel ssd and you'll have zero problems.
What a lot of customers want and Apple will never let it happen.
A well configured $1,500 i7 system that absolutely wipes the
floor with the $2,500 base Mac Pro will never see the light of day.
When you need speed, there is no such thing as too fast or overkill. When I need to offload and backup 2 TB/day, every single second counts.
Apple may be moving away from physical media... but some people who buy Mac Pros aren't!
I just want the front slot as before that is all. I can manage to put in a drive or BD w/r myself if the SATA internal port is available.
What a lot of customers want and Apple will never let it happen.
A well configured $1,500 i7 system that absolutely wipes the
floor with the $2,500 base Mac Pro will never see the light of day.
Has anyone ever done a cost breakdown of the iMac?
I wonder how much of the price of an i7 iMac is the screen...
That could give some clue as to what a headless Mac should cost.
(granted... that wouldn't include Apple's markup... I'm still curious though)
I would have agreed with you for the 2012 release .... but it didn't happen then, either.
I'd also like to see an Apple-branded USB3 card....today.
What I've really been waiting for progress on is Grand Central Dispatch, and a MacPro that has the channels for a couple of GPU cards to run with it.
In the meantime, the current MacPro with an SSD based Accelsior PCIe card boots in 25 seconds and does nicely...faster than SATA2 or 3.
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A Mac rumor....a Mac PRO rumor.......on Macrumors!?!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gD3uk_bDrM&t=0m28s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gD3uk_bDrM&t=0m28s
Hmmmm I doubt it. Why bang in 2tb drivers after spending all this time pushing thunderbolt.
Currently u can get pci SSDs in those sizes, though a 1.6 TB comes in at about 7000 pounds.
Though I say make it and let's profile the users who have zero common sense and heaps of $$$$$$$$$$
Currently u can get pci SSDs in those sizes, though a 1.6 TB comes in at about 7000 pounds.
Though I say make it and let's profile the users who have zero common sense and heaps of $$$$$$$$$$
I want a RAID5 array of 2TB SSDs. Apple could even remove the beach ball icon from the OS as it will be never shown anymore.
