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SSD Drives for Mac Pro Boot Drive?

Tesselator said:
It's all guud bra! :) <-- Where's the Hawaiian smiley grinning and smoking the reefer?
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That would go good now since i'm sitting home from knee surgery. Its been over 20 years since I enjoyed that stuff. Was stationed in Hawaii in the early 80's. Good times back then. Gave it up when I started a family.
 
bearcatrp said:
That would go good now since i'm sitting home from knee surgery. Its been over 20 years since I enjoyed that stuff. Was stationed in Hawaii in the early 80's. Good times back then. Gave it up when I started a family.
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Responsibilities such as a family, do seem to have that effect... :D

BTW, knee surgery... OUCH! Hope you get well soon. :)
 
A minor problem about the SSDs is the mechanical adaptation. All the drives that are interesting have a physical 2,5" size where the Mac Pro sled has 3,5".

It doesn't sound so difficult but in this thread I have only come across the MaxUpgrade Velociraptor adaptors and those are a bit steep at 50$ each.

Has anybody resolved that problem with a bit of more cost effective engineering?
 
gugucom said:
A minor problem about the SSDs is the mechanical adaptation. All the drives that are interesting have a physical 2,5" size where the Mac Pro sled has 3,5".

It doesn't sound so difficult but in this thread I have only come across the MaxUpgrade Velociraptor adaptors and those are a bit steep at 50$ each.

Has anybody resolved that problem with a bit of more cost effective engineering?
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This is ideal... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ccessories+-+Hard+Drive-_-ICY+DOCK-_-17994064

I'm using this with my drives and they work great.
 
gugucom said:
A minor problem about the SSDs is the mechanical adaptation. All the drives that are interesting have a physical 2,5" size where the Mac Pro sled has 3,5".

It doesn't sound so difficult but in this thread I have only come across the MaxUpgrade Velociraptor adaptors and those are a bit steep at 50$ each.

Has anybody resolved that problem with a bit of more cost effective engineering?
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No, you buy a PCIe SSD card, which is faster, thus leaving the disk bays for slower, volume storage.
 
gugucom said:
A minor problem about the SSDs is the mechanical adaptation. All the drives that are interesting have a physical 2,5" size where the Mac Pro sled has 3,5".

It doesn't sound so difficult but in this thread I have only come across the MaxUpgrade Velociraptor adaptors and those are a bit steep at 50$ each.

Has anybody resolved that problem with a bit of more cost effective engineering?
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Apple's a bit "late to the party" with regard to storage. The Xserve 1U still uses 3.5" drives which is ridiculous. I'd love to see them modify the Mac Pro chassis and replace the four 3.5" bays with six 2.5" bays. Thus you could store say 8 total drives in your system by occupying some of the optical bays.

While it's great to cram in 2TB hard drives I think someone with 8TB of storage needs should be looking at an external array with hot swap capability rather than cramming them in their workstation.
 
nuckinfutz said:
Apple's a bit "late to the party" with regard to storage. The Xserve 1U still uses 3.5" drives which is ridiculous. I'd love to see them modify the Mac Pro chassis and replace the four 3.5" bays with six 2.5" bays. Thus you could store say 8 total drives in your system by occupying some of the optical bays.

While it's great to cram in 2TB hard drives I think someone with 8TB of storage needs should be looking at an external array with hot swap capability rather than cramming them in their workstation.
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Xserves come with a separate optional SSD boot drive.
http://www.apple.com/xserve/features/storage.html
 
cube said:
No. 3.5" drives are at 2TB each and cheap.
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Yes but as I've said when you move to 8TB of data (4 bays with 2TB drives each) it makes good sense to have an external array.

Though it really depends on if your needs center around mass storage or having more I/O.

The I/O starved person would not care as much about 2TB per bay and would rather have more bays which = more spindles and I/O. Plus you'd get six 2.5" drives for less power usage.
 
nuckinfutz said:
Yes but as I've said when you move to 8TB of data (4 bays with 2TB drives each) it makes good sense to have an external array.

Though it really depends on if your needs center around mass storage or having more I/O.

The I/O starved person would not care as much about 2TB per bay and would rather have more bays which = more spindles and I/O. Plus you'd get six 2.5" drives for less power usage.
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When you just want to put in 1 or 2 drives, 3.5" bays rule. This is what the average person wants.
 
nuckinfutz said:
The average person does not buy a Mac Pro. For a Pro ..more drive bays equals more options like multiple RAID sets.
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The average person has no option but to buy a Mac Pro if he wants a real desktop, not a fashion toy.
 
cube said:
The average person has no option but to buy a Mac Pro if he wants a real desktop, not a fashion toy.
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Fashion toys are HOT. LOL.

Actually Anand says it best

http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3597&p=4

Even a compromise would be nice. Put one or two 2.5" bays for SSD. Storage size is great but it's not going to cut your app launch time in half (without RAID) or be silent and vibration free.

The Xserve has a SSD boot drive option and so should the Mac Pro
 
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