EFI Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Apple added a new built to order option for their Mac Pro series. It's a new dedicated RAID card option: The Mac Pro RAID card offers improved performance and data protection to your Mac Pro system -- up to 304MB/s of sequential read performance in RAID 0. Ideal for video and creative professionals with demanding storage needs as well as for tower server applications, this hardware RAID option supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 0+1, and Enhanced JBOD. It has 256MB of cache and an integrated 72-hour battery for protecting the RAID cache. The card occupies the top PCI Express slot (slot 4) and connects to the four internal drive bays. However, it does not come cheap... in fact, your Mac Pro's price will be increased instantly to $999 greater than what it cost before the option was added. That's right, the card costs a whopping 1K on it's own. Mac Pro product page Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59414-mac-pro-with-raid-card-avaliable/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Interesting, they didn't add the option for 1TB drives like they have in the new imac. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59414-mac-pro-with-raid-card-avaliable/#findComment-423382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jglavin Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 four tb drives in 0+1...mmmm $1000 bucks just to get started...yuck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59414-mac-pro-with-raid-card-avaliable/#findComment-423408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellair Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Hope we can extract the firmware out of it and then import in another cheaper card. Or are there any compatible RAID cards for osx 10.4.10? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59414-mac-pro-with-raid-card-avaliable/#findComment-423594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 It has 256MB of cache and an integrated 72-hour battery for protecting the RAID cache. Is that a bit like this Gigabyte card? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59414-mac-pro-with-raid-card-avaliable/#findComment-423614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
whocares Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Is that a bit like this Gigabyte card? It is nothing at all like that. That card uses RAM as a "disk". This card is a Hard Drive controller with Cache. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59414-mac-pro-with-raid-card-avaliable/#findComment-423640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technobob Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Typical Apple upgrade price charge twice or more then what it's worth. It's like the 750GB hard drives Apple wants $599CAD I can buy it for $320CAD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59414-mac-pro-with-raid-card-avaliable/#findComment-423669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwight F Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 I'm not sure that it's a full 100% mark-up on that. Yeah, some mark up but it has a 256MB cache and PC cards like that run close to $1000 retail. At least $650-$700 at the low end. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59414-mac-pro-with-raid-card-avaliable/#findComment-423755 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeSuKuN Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Mac pro's RAID card isn't a toy RAID like Sillicon Image's or RocketRAID's, it's more like this one, an it's an intel one. I place my bet that apple's is this one or one of it's cousins. http://shop.intel.com/shop/product.asp?pid...86&pindex=1 with 72h battery and 256mb ~850$ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59414-mac-pro-with-raid-card-avaliable/#findComment-423772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorphewS Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 RAID Cards is so much better them Intel ICH9R? Any review? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59414-mac-pro-with-raid-card-avaliable/#findComment-424621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeSuKuN Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 "RAID" capable chipsets and cheap controllers are fake RAIDs. They aren't real hardware RAIDs, just a software RAID implemented in the BIOS of the controller. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59414-mac-pro-with-raid-card-avaliable/#findComment-426213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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