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Mac Pro Hard Drive Advice.
I was given a Mac Pro 5.1 Mid 2010.
I need internal hard drives. I have always used WD caviar black on PC's I have built. But what do you MAC guys suggest? Need a System Drive, Pro Tools write to drive and drive for my sample and VI libraries. Thank you
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Re: Mac Pro Hard Drive Advice.
Pretty much anything you're used to on PC is AOK in a Mac Pro. WD Blacks are fine. I tend to go with the WD RE Enterprise series, mainly for the extended warranty. For system drive, an SSD will be faster for boot. VI's and samples are speedier on SSD, but a large mechanical may be better if you don't want to spend a bundle.
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Fastest SSD you can install on a Mac Pro (cheesecrater) is a PCI-express card, avoiding SATA bottleneck and giving you easily ~1GBps performance.
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Re: Mac Pro Hard Drive Advice.
so does the SSD's connect where the spinners go or do I need to get the pci-express adapter kits?
So is the best advice? System Drive SSD Sample Libraries SSD WD Black spinner for the Pro Tools sessions Read and Write. This rig will be mainly for mixing. Recording will be limited no more than 4 tracks at a time.
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Re: Mac Pro Hard Drive Advice.
Yup. SSDs where the spinners go. Handy little sleds here:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MMP35T25/ You've got the right idea for the drives. |
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Re: Mac Pro Hard Drive Advice.
almost Fully SSD here .. 5 drives .. SSD's - System, Samples 1 & 2, Audio and a Spinner 7200rpm for Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion for PT10 and older things ...
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Re: Mac Pro Hard Drive Advice.
El Cap see's all drives here - same as my mavericks partition .. something is ood with your setup .. see names on pics
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Re: Mac Pro Hard Drive Advice.
Haha. Thank you. Oops.
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