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Downsides of housing SSD in 2nd Optical bay?

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steffi

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What if any are the downsides of using the 2nd Optical bay to house an SSD?

Is the SATA port independent like the 4 drive bays in terms of the bandwidth available to the port?
 
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.
 
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?

Concorde Rules said:
Eh?

It's a full SATA2 connection, no sharing, no performance drop. Just 100% performance like the 4 drive bays...
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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).
 
lloyd709 said:
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).
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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).
 
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