Retina IMac & OWC Thunderbolt Raid 5 Setup

[sahib]

Hi Guys,

Only just registered to communicate with the MacRumours community

I'm a Photographer & Cinematographer and with a busy season next year, I've decided to create a practical workstation.

I've ordered the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display with the following configuration:

• 4.0GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz
• 16GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x8GB
• 512GB Flash Storage
• AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4GB GDDR5

I've purchased the OWC Thunderbolt Bay 4 Raid 5 Edition along side

- Samsung 840 EVO 1TB 2.5-inch Basic SATA Solid State Drive
- WD 4 TB 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive - Black
- WD 4 TB 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive - Black
- WD 4 TB 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive - Black


Im thinking of setting up the 3 x WD 4 TB as Raid 5 for all my photo and video storage and using the Samsung 840 EVO 1TB 2.5-inch Basic SATA Solid State Drive as a 'scratch disk' for film editing.


What do you guys think of my set up? any feedback will be appreciated or even sharing your own set ups.

 

[WilliamG]

Hi Guys,

Only just registered to communicate with the MacRumours community

I'm a Photographer & Cinematographer and with a busy season next year, I've decided to create a practical workstation.

I've ordered the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display with the following configuration:

• 4.0GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz
• 16GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x8GB
• 512GB Flash Storage
• AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4GB GDDR5

I've purchased the OWC Thunderbolt Bay 4 Raid 5 Edition along side

- Samsung 840 EVO 1TB 2.5-inch Basic SATA Solid State Drive
- WD 4 TB 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive - Black
- WD 4 TB 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive - Black
- WD 4 TB 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive - Black


Im thinking of setting up the 3 x WD 4 TB as Raid 5 for all my photo and video storage and using the Samsung 840 EVO 1TB 2.5-inch Basic SATA Solid State Drive as a 'scratch disk' for film editing.


What do you guys think of my set up? any feedback will be appreciated or even sharing your own set ups.

Looks like a fine setup. You may want to ask questions in the iMac + OWC thread:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1808641/

Also, you'll need the OWC 2.5" -> 3.5" adapter for the 840 Evo to work in there.