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Mac Pro with RAID card avaliable

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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.

 

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skyhighmac

skyhighmac 1

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Interesting, they didn't add the option for 1TB drives like they have in the new imac.

jglavin

jglavin 0

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four tb drives in 0+1...mmmm

 

$1000 bucks just to get started...yuck

Stellair

Stellair 1

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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?

Paranoid Marvin

Paranoid Marvin 1

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It has 256MB of cache and an integrated 72-hour battery for protecting the RAID cache.

 

Is that a bit like this Gigabyte card?

whocares

whocares 0

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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.

Technobob

Technobob 0

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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

Dwight F

Dwight F 0

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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.

MorphewS

MorphewS 0

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RAID Cards is so much better them Intel ICH9R?

Any review?

NeSuKuN

NeSuKuN 0

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"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.


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