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LEOMODE

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Jun 14, 2009
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Hi,

1) I currently have 2 2.5" SSD and 2 3.5" HDD. Can I put them in 7,1 Mac Pro? It looked like Mac Pro comes with T2 enabled independent SSD and I was wondering if I need to overpay to get the higher storage option if that has to be a primary storage choice all the time. I wasn't sure if 3.5" HDD is plug and play like 5,1 as I didn't really see the space in 7,1 Mac Pro (I had to buy a separate Apple official enclosure to fit 2.5" SSD but it was still plug and play).

2) For the CPU, would it be easily upgradable unlike 5,1, meaning it'll be pretty much plug and play?

3) Would I be able to just use whatever I buy for 7,1 Mac Pro GPU on Mac OS and insert an Nvidia to use that on Windows 10 Boot Camp? And would each GPU turn off when not in use?

4) I noticed that Mac Pro 7,1 starts with 4 slot of 32GB RAM. I was curious if I just buy 2 slot out of Apple (assuming they're the same DDR4 ECC with same Hz), would it work fine? I just had an assumption that they also had to be the same brand and etc.

Thanks.
 
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