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Hard Drive Problems Mac Pro a1186, Help!
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<blockquote data-quote="328ifun" data-source="post: 1621501" data-attributes="member: 337571"><p>Well I figured out a better solution.</p><p> </p><p>The Mac is still very usable. Only thing that doesn't work is the Sata power from the motherboard.</p><p></p><p>I already have an open box windows 7 system. 8gb ram, quad 3.0, 950gtx, 4tb of HD space.</p><p></p><p>I disassembled the Mac; motherboard, PS, video card, Harness, etc all came out of the case, and placed the components beside my open box PC. The mac Pro still has 2 sata ports on the motherboard so I just crossed 2 sata power connectors from my PC build to power 2 hard drives in raid 0 for the mac.</p><p></p><p>The 4tb PC is going to be a 'server'/'data' center that will be on 24/7. So I now have an open box mac running in raid 0 with 16gb of ram. I can easily swap parts out of either the mac or the pc anytime I wish. </p><p></p><p>heres a pic</p><p><a href="http://postimg.org/image/m4pt7vtv3/" target="_blank">View image: 1456710 10152893433281255 33593902637494195 n</a></p><p></p><p>I cleaned it up quite a bit a few hours ago so it looks much more organized than that. That was just a test run.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="328ifun, post: 1621501, member: 337571"] Well I figured out a better solution. The Mac is still very usable. Only thing that doesn't work is the Sata power from the motherboard. I already have an open box windows 7 system. 8gb ram, quad 3.0, 950gtx, 4tb of HD space. I disassembled the Mac; motherboard, PS, video card, Harness, etc all came out of the case, and placed the components beside my open box PC. The mac Pro still has 2 sata ports on the motherboard so I just crossed 2 sata power connectors from my PC build to power 2 hard drives in raid 0 for the mac. The 4tb PC is going to be a 'server'/'data' center that will be on 24/7. So I now have an open box mac running in raid 0 with 16gb of ram. I can easily swap parts out of either the mac or the pc anytime I wish. heres a pic [url=http://postimg.org/image/m4pt7vtv3/]View image: 1456710 10152893433281255 33593902637494195 n[/url] I cleaned it up quite a bit a few hours ago so it looks much more organized than that. That was just a test run. [/QUOTE]
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