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I have the chioce to either get a mac pro 12 - core with either 4 512GB SSD's or just 4 1 TB drives. Money is not an issue which should I take?
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2011-02-09, 09:21 PM #1High Overlord
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You may be smarter than me but I inherited a multi-million dollar enterprise.
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2011-02-09, 09:30 PM #2Titan
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Unless you need 4TB of disc space, the SSD option is better, no questions asked. Both options are rather stupid though, and there's around $10k price difference between them.
Never going to log into this garbage forum again as long as calling obvious troll obvious troll is the easiest way to get banned.
Trolling should be.
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2011-02-09, 09:38 PM #3High Overlord
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As I said. Price is not an issue...$10K? pennies in a bucket. I just wanted to know which would be the better choice to take and since I don't need 4TB or disk space I guess its SSD time.
You may be smarter than me but I inherited a multi-million dollar enterprise.
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2011-02-09, 09:38 PM #4High Overlord
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I swear i just read i want to catch a bag of 100 dollar bills on fire.
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2011-02-09, 09:39 PM #5Herald of the Titans
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Don't buy a mac. If money is no issue, get an expensive ass PC.
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2011-02-09, 10:08 PM #6Deleted
Get one SSD (for applications) and 3 HDDs (for data).
Or 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs...
I have just ordered a similar machine for the new institute
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2011-02-09, 10:49 PM #7Epic!
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Buy the minimum drive configuration for your Mac Pro, and the buy better SSDs yourself. As far as I know, the SSDs that ship with Mac Pros are either Samsungs or Toshibas... You want SandForce or Crucial/Marvell based drives.
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2011-02-09, 11:37 PM #8Pandaren Monk
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personally i would get something crazy like one of ocztechnologies HSDL SSD or any of there pci express SSD
those things all cost insane $$$ and really scream
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2011-02-10, 12:24 AM #9DeletedThis.
Originally Posted by kidsafe
The SSDs included with Apple's systems are roughly 1-2 years of age - their performance is antiquated (low read/write bandwidth, low cache, generally low IOPS - even for the time), and their garbage collection algorithms are outdated, and have lower reliability and endurance compared to proper solutions (especially Intel on those two).
The hard drives are unremarkable as well - nothing but the standard sort you can buy from any online retailer for cheaps.
Keep in mind that the hard drives do not require any special firmware to operate on Macintosh based machines. Sandforce and Intel drives are commonly installed by the customer in Macbook pros for example.Last edited by mmoca371db5304; 2011-02-10 at 12:29 AM.
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2011-02-10, 01:10 AM #10The Lightbringer
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
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2011-02-10, 02:23 AM #11Moderator
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