If you were wondering about the Pro Drive...

[Andrew Henry]

Although the sleds are numbered so easy to accomplish I don't think this is necessary. I've set a striped set in a different order than originally created and all it did was list them in a different order in the Disk Utilities drive list. Is there something bad that should have happened?

lol, well, since they are sitting in the optical bay, they aren't really in a bay!

Yikes! I think I might wait until Apple offers SSD BTO on the Mac Pro. They already offer it on the MBP and XServe.

They will be way more expensive getting them through Apple, plus they will probably only offer the slow ones.. like they do in the MBPs

 

[Tesselator]

lol, well, since they are sitting in the optical bay, they aren't really in a bay!

Kewl. I wonder if it's the same difference? I haven't tried it. I guess it is. <shrug>

 

[Andrew Henry]

As long as you pull all your drives for this operation and then insert them back in the same bays as before when you are done, nothing should happen to your array. (Although I take no responsibility if you blow up the planet as a result! )

It worked, I put them in Bay 2, and they updated just fine, plus I didn't have reinstall OS X, AGAIN!

Thanks bud,
Andrew

 

[VirtualRain]

It worked, I put them in Bay 2, and they updated just fine, plus I didn't have reinstall OS X, AGAIN!

Thanks bud,
Andrew

Cool. Did that improve your benchmark scores at all?

 

[Andrew Henry]

Cool. Did that improve your benchmark scores at all?

Marginally, I think that your scores are better because you have the 2009 series, they can move data faster with the upgraded bus and memory speeds. Mine aren't too far off yours, just slightly less in some categories, either way, it's still money well spent.

Now I have a game when I first login to see how many programs I can open at once to bog down the system... well the MP always wins, it opens the programs faster than I do.. But I try! lol

Andrew

 

[Tesselator]

Marginally, I think that your scores are better because you have the 2009 series, they can move data faster with the upgraded bus and memory speeds. Mine aren't too far off yours, just slightly less in some categories, either way, it's still money well spent.

Now I have a game when I first login to see how many programs I can open at once to bog down the system... well the MP always wins, it opens the programs faster than I do.. But I try! lol

Andrew

I think that's all you're going to get out of 2 x 80gb Kingston SSDNow M-series drives. All intel Mac Pros are capable of about 600 MB/s in your situation and you're barely even approaching 450 MB/s in the fastest category.