Patman65 Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 Hey guys, I'm gettinga mac pro (Good grades) but I have a question. Im going to have 4 HDD put in, this computer will be just for movie editing, rendering, and etc. Now I KNOW I need windows on one of the HDD, but which version. XP or Vista I need to know which OS to put on. Which will be more compatible with the big windows edditing apps? -Thanks is advance Patman -Opinions are OK too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 If you're wanting to do editing with big/heavy Windows apps, go with XP. You "should" get better performance and I believe that some video apps, like Avid, aren't even Vista compatible yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patman65 Posted June 19, 2007 Author Share Posted June 19, 2007 Alright, Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39thRonin Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 I have a Quad Core - and it is by far the finest computer I've ever owned... Here's what I did - I got my Mac Pro with one 500Gb drive, then got the rest from NewEgg - same drive - excellent prices on Newegg - I paid close to $200 LESS per drive than Apple charges. Installing them was a piece of cake - open up the case - slide out the drive carriers, undo 4 screws, put in the drive, re-do the 4 screws and slide the drive back in. I did quite a bit of research on this next bit, but I'll warn you that it tends to turn into a religious debate - RAID... SO, what I ended up doing was this: 1) 1st 500gb - 2 partitions (one for Tiger, One for Leopard ;-) ) 2) Drives 2,3,4, into a striped RADI (RAID 1) Now where this gets religious is that RAID 1does not give you ANY data protection, spo if you lose something, it's gone. I feel safer as I have a couple -f external firewire drives that I back up to regularly (and with Time Machine, it will be even easier). The advantage to RAID 1 - you get 3x SATA performanve - e.g. with 3gb drives you can get nearly 9gb per sec across the buss, which is great for DV editing.. Oh - I almost forgot - get Parallels and run yourt tools under XP - it runs faster than native. However, if you want full driver compatibility, get the BootCamp Beta that Apple has on it's site. You don't need to designate a specific drive for it - it will carve out a partition of it's own from an existing drive. BTW - you WILL love this machine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Ronin, I think you mean a RAID 0, a RAID 1 is for parity and redundancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 wow, you are lucky to get a mac pro for good grades! definately get all you can for this from newegg, mac overcharges for most of its stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patman65 Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 Wow guys thats for all your comments, Hey soundless A average baby! I like newegg, Cheaper stuff and I got a couple of HDD sitten at me desk so Might put those is if too many HDD becomes a money issue - Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Why use the Windows editing apps when there are perfectly capable (and sometimes, MORE capable) Mac editing tools? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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