Hello, everyone. I want to thank you in advance for anyone who would be kind enough to help me with this upgrade.
I do video stuff, mainly as a hobby for fun, not for work or anything, however I take it pretty seriously. I used to have a Powermac G5 years ago but for the past 4 or so years I've gotten along fine with my MacBook Pro because my projects have been small. I am starting to edit a larger project and wanted to have more power, so I picked up a Quad Mac Pro a little while in hopes of upgrading it when the time comes for me to start editing this project, well the time has come.
It currently has 1-500gb Hard drive and 2gb Ram. So I bought 2 WD Black 1 TB Drives which I would like to raid so that the second drive acts as a back up to the first 1 TB drive which I will be using for FCP, AE etc. I also bought 8gb of Ram to add. So at the end of the day I'll have 10gb Ram, a 500gb startup disc, and 2-1TB Drives Raided.
I have never installed this stuff before in a Macpro, though I have done Ram in my macbook pros.
I'm reaching out for any help in doing this. I'm mainly nervous about not the installation of the hard drives but the set up afterwards. As I said I've never done this before. So anyone that would be willing to talk me through it or give me any pointers or insight it would be much appreciated!
Thank you
I do video stuff, mainly as a hobby for fun, not for work or anything, however I take it pretty seriously. I used to have a Powermac G5 years ago but for the past 4 or so years I've gotten along fine with my MacBook Pro because my projects have been small. I am starting to edit a larger project and wanted to have more power, so I picked up a Quad Mac Pro a little while in hopes of upgrading it when the time comes for me to start editing this project, well the time has come.
It currently has 1-500gb Hard drive and 2gb Ram. So I bought 2 WD Black 1 TB Drives which I would like to raid so that the second drive acts as a back up to the first 1 TB drive which I will be using for FCP, AE etc. I also bought 8gb of Ram to add. So at the end of the day I'll have 10gb Ram, a 500gb startup disc, and 2-1TB Drives Raided.
I have never installed this stuff before in a Macpro, though I have done Ram in my macbook pros.
I'm reaching out for any help in doing this. I'm mainly nervous about not the installation of the hard drives but the set up afterwards. As I said I've never done this before. So anyone that would be willing to talk me through it or give me any pointers or insight it would be much appreciated!
Thank you
