I am about to pull the trigger on this Mac Pro.
Mac Pro
Two 16x SuperDrives
Two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core)
Mac Pro RAID Card
8GB (4 x 2GB)
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
300GB 15,000-rpm SAS
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (Two dual-link DVI)
I have a question on the SAS 15,000 RPM drive. I was planning to get 1 SAS drive for my operating system/Scratchdisk and a 1 TB drive for my data.
1) Will I get all of the benefits of the fast drive even though I do not plan on using it as a RAID setup? I have to buy the RAID card to use the hard drive.
I've been reading online and it seems the only setups that use the RAID card are using the SAS drive in all 4 bays as a RAID setup.
2) If I were to run bootcamp, should I do it off of the SAS drive as well to get the performance boost? Would it just be a separate partition on the SAS drive for that?
Thanks in Advanced
3) Ram. 4 2GB modules are alot cheaper than buying 1 or 4 GB modules. Is there any drawbacks in using 2 GB cards besides the ability to upgrade later? Also, If I wanted to upgrade with 4, 2GB modules, could I still use my stock 1GB modules as well?
Meaning
2, 1 gb slots (stock Ram), and 4, 2 gb slots, for a total of 10 GB RAM
Can I add 2 more 4GB modules later or do they all have to match?
Kaden
Mac Pro
Two 16x SuperDrives
Two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core)
Mac Pro RAID Card
8GB (4 x 2GB)
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
300GB 15,000-rpm SAS
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (Two dual-link DVI)
I have a question on the SAS 15,000 RPM drive. I was planning to get 1 SAS drive for my operating system/Scratchdisk and a 1 TB drive for my data.
1) Will I get all of the benefits of the fast drive even though I do not plan on using it as a RAID setup? I have to buy the RAID card to use the hard drive.
I've been reading online and it seems the only setups that use the RAID card are using the SAS drive in all 4 bays as a RAID setup.
2) If I were to run bootcamp, should I do it off of the SAS drive as well to get the performance boost? Would it just be a separate partition on the SAS drive for that?
Thanks in Advanced
3) Ram. 4 2GB modules are alot cheaper than buying 1 or 4 GB modules. Is there any drawbacks in using 2 GB cards besides the ability to upgrade later? Also, If I wanted to upgrade with 4, 2GB modules, could I still use my stock 1GB modules as well?
Meaning
2, 1 gb slots (stock Ram), and 4, 2 gb slots, for a total of 10 GB RAM
Can I add 2 more 4GB modules later or do they all have to match?
Kaden