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Downsides of housing SSD in 2nd Optical bay?
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I believe that is correct. I have dual velociraptors set up in there in a Mac Pro and they are quick!
^ If you put SSD in 2nd optical bay, no space will left for second optical drive and there will be nothing to slow down 
And if you meant copies with saving disc image on HDD/SSD, it should be no slow down too. SATA contoller limits bandwith per device.
And if you meant copies with saving disc image on HDD/SSD, it should be no slow down too. SATA contoller limits bandwith per device.
Who does that? Its actually faster to clone the disc to the HD and copy it from there.
Eh?
It's a full SATA2 connection, no sharing, no performance drop. Just 100% performance like the 4 drive bays...
I think he means that if i only have one optical drive because I'm using the second port for sad that copying DVDs will be slower because I'll only have one drive
Ie it's a smart arse comment?
Ie it's a smart arse comment?
It works perfectly for me with my main OSX boot drive but I've noticed that I can't run my windows boot drive within the optical bay. I think this is because windows sort of attaches itself to the hardware for security reasons and doesn't recognise the optical SATA connections (so there is a difference but it doesn't seem to make a difference for OSX).
Which MP model do you have?
I ask, as the 2008 systems will not boot Windows disks off of the ODD_SATA ports that are in that system. Windows will only from the 4x HDD bays in those systems (or if you go with an external solution such as a USB drive enclosure or an eSATA card running BIOS).
Hmm.... I've been told that the ODD_SATA ports would boot a Windows disk in both an 06 and 07 system (you can search for it in MR, but it's in here somewhere).