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About to Buy a SUPER Mac Pro. Have a few questions...
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<blockquote data-quote="ViperGQ" data-source="post: 647190" data-attributes="member: 54900"><p>I think Mixing the Raid Card with a SATA drive is not a Cost effective idea in cmparison to perfomance. Here are a few options I have come up with for Storage. Let me know which you think would be best.</p><p></p><p>First off, computer is a Photoshop editing computer, Next a Gaming System using Bootcamp, and 3rd an HD video editing machine.</p><p></p><p>Option 1: 1 Apple RAID card running the 15,000 RPM SAS drive with OSX and 1 SATA Drive for the Data</p><p></p><p>Option 2: 3 10,000 Raptor Drives. 1 for OSX, and the other 2 in RAID 0 for scratch, and 1 SATA drive for Data.</p><p></p><p>Option 2b: 3 10,000 Raptor Drives. 3 in RAID 5 for scratch and OSx, and 1 SATA drive for Data.</p><p></p><p>Option 3: 4 SATA Drives in Raid 1+0</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ViperGQ, post: 647190, member: 54900"] I think Mixing the Raid Card with a SATA drive is not a Cost effective idea in cmparison to perfomance. Here are a few options I have come up with for Storage. Let me know which you think would be best. First off, computer is a Photoshop editing computer, Next a Gaming System using Bootcamp, and 3rd an HD video editing machine. Option 1: 1 Apple RAID card running the 15,000 RPM SAS drive with OSX and 1 SATA Drive for the Data Option 2: 3 10,000 Raptor Drives. 1 for OSX, and the other 2 in RAID 0 for scratch, and 1 SATA drive for Data. Option 2b: 3 10,000 Raptor Drives. 3 in RAID 5 for scratch and OSx, and 1 SATA drive for Data. Option 3: 4 SATA Drives in Raid 1+0 [/QUOTE]
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