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Need Some New Mac Pro Advice
Hi All:
I have an old 6 core tower that I had running constantly for the past 4 years in my studio. I moved locations and it's not booting well (takes 2hours). Like a fool I shut it down over the weekend and its now been booting for 2 plus with nothing on the desktop yet. I'm considering a new purchase but would need an external chassis for my HDx and UAD cards (3 in all). Has any of you had success with a new mac pro (trashcan)and an expansion chassis? In addition, how well does thunderbolt work with getting data from the chassis while recording to external drives? Thanks in advance. Carl
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Re: Need Some New Mac Pro Advice
First thing I would try; the next time you get it booted, clone the hard drive to a fresh drive. Then shut down and swap for the newly cloned drive and see if it helps. If it DOES, then you can figure the old drive is bad. If it DOESN'T help, then you are probably due for a new computer. The new TB chassis seem to work well, but its not going to be a cheap update New Mac Pro's are expensive enough(and I would discourage buying as they are getting replaced with a new version fairly soon), plus the chassis adds another $grand or more on top. So, you might consider either a used tower(5,1) or a hackintosh(assuming you want to stay on Mac) Just one opinion
BTW, when was the last time the motherboard battery was changed??? While they are SUPPOSED to last 5 years, sometimes they don't.....
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Re: Need Some New Mac Pro Advice
Thanks Albee. I have a second boot drive. I waited 3o mins and never got to that screen. Not looking good.
I'm not against the investment if it works. I got a lot of years out of this system. Have you tried a TB chassis? Can you share how well those systems work? Thanks Carl
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Re: Need Some New Mac Pro Advice
Never changed that battery. I'll look into that. Makes sense.
Thanks. Carl EDIT - battery coming this week. I'll let you know. Thanks again.
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PT 2021.10 HDX 16x24 -Mac Pro 12 Cores 48 GB RAM OS 10.13.6 - API 16 channel - AMS Neve 16 channel, AMS-Neve-SSL -Pres/Processing, Bock Audio, BLUE Bottle, Neumann, Josephson -Mics, Bogner, Kemper- Guitar, Chandler Zener-Curve Bender Outboard/Master. UAudio, Waves, Plugin Alliance etc. Last edited by Carl Lie; 04-25-2017 at 03:31 PM. |
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Re: Need Some New Mac Pro Advice
Have you tried resetting PRAM/NVRAM during bootup?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063 You can also run Diagnostics: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202731 |
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Re: Need Some New Mac Pro Advice
Thanks SigFriedC. Your name makes me laugh.
I never get to the point to do any of that. I think the battery test is next. Although I did get up and running over the weekend, I left my windows open last night and the room was freezing today. Metal was cold to the touch and I think that made something weaker. I'll know in a few days if that is it. I think there is a good chance it is the battery. This is a 2010 machine so I'm close to 7 years without the battery change. Of course if Albee is correct I'll have to send all the money I was going to put to a new machine to him. C
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Re: Need Some New Mac Pro Advice
Hold down the option key as it's booting, it should take a while but after the grey screen it will list all your boootable drives. use your arrow key to put an arrow under the second drive and press return. it should boot from that drive for you. .. hope you can get it that far... once in, you will need to set startup disk as that disk while you try to fix the other drive or replace it (if that's the fault) ... good luck!
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Re: Need Some New Mac Pro Advice
I've had one of the 6 core "trashcan" MacPro's since they came out. it's a fantastic machine. I have a couple of external TB hard drives, one a RAID, 2 USB drives and an external Sonnett chassis for a UAD Octo. the machine is absolutely killer. it's way faster than my previous 5.1.
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Re: Need Some New Mac Pro Advice
My only real gripe with the newer Mac Pro "trashcan" is that they cut many corners(according to the experts) and as such, I have read that a new version is in the works(making it a questionable investment in buying the current version). From my very limited experience, the TB chassis are fairly "seamless"(IOW, the tend to just work without much fuss), but they are certainly not cheap. For the price of a well-loaded trashcan and a chassis, you could build a hackintosh that is totally top-of-the-line(more cores, more RAM and slots for your cards without the added expense of the chassis). pro-tools-pc.com builds systems and I am pretty sure they also offer a build(or several) that will run OSX(and yes, they also offer builds with Thunderbolt).
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Re: Need Some New Mac Pro Advice
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