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<blockquote data-quote="Tuppy" data-source="post: 1886265" data-attributes="member: 408224"><p>Thanks much, Horsa and MacAllread. Yes, I not only ran Disk Utility’s First Aid through all these drives but I also ran Disk Warrior through the three 8TB drives. These apps found nothing wrong with the drives.</p><p></p><p>Okay, I just took drives #2 and #3 out of the Mac, leaving only #4 and the startup drive (which is a new 2TB Crucial MX500 SSD that worked fine in the old box). By the way drives 2, 3, and 4 are all the same: Western Digital 8TB Ultrastar SATA 7200 RPM Enterprise-class drives. My old Mac had no trouble with any of them—they behaved like any of the smaller drives I’ve had in that box over the years.</p><p></p><p>Then I had Disk Utility erase and reformat Drive #4. I then restarted the Mac several times, and Drive 4 still never showed up on the desktop on any of the restarts, just like before. However, it does show up just fine on cold starts, just like before. So nothing has changed.</p><p></p><p>Another little glitch is now showing up with this “new” Mac. It now takes several pushes on the startup button before it will start. The first push usually does nothing, nor does pushing and holding the button a while. In most cases (it’s unpredictable) it requires poking at the button several times while saying bad words before the computer will start up. If this is just a problem with the switch itself, maybe I can take a switch out of one of the old G5 boxes that I have out in the garage, and switch switches.</p><p></p><p>But this new switch trouble, plus the possibility of a faulty logic board or other hardware problem, is making this “new” machine seem less and less attractive to me now. The whole point of this exercise—switching from my old Mac Pro to a supposedly more capable one—was to gain some speed while doing such things as rendering video in Final Cut Studio, or speeding up the Adobe CS6 suite of programs, and any other benefits of a faster Mac.</p><p></p><p>And in fact those programs do seem “snappier” in this new Mac Pro, from what little I’ve done with them so far. Here is the difference between the two boxes:</p><p></p><p>My “old” Mac Pro is a mid-2010 2.28 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon with 32 GB of memory.</p><p></p><p>This “new” Mac Pro is a mid-2010 2 X 3.33GHz 6-core Intel Xeon with 64 GB of memory.</p><p></p><p>I realize that I can switch the memory from one box to the other, but the “new” Mac not only has a faster processor, it has two of them, as well as another couple of cores, whatever cores are (more cores sounds good).</p><p></p><p>I was hoping this would be a faster Mac because I spend a lot of time in Final Cut Studio 3, creating videos with a lot of special effects in them, and some of my videos are two hours long. Video, as you know if you’ve done any, requires a lot of rendering that can really slow the work down.</p><p></p><p>I’ve also been using InDesign to create books, one of them 800 pages long with 375 maps and photos, with the photos and other illustrations being prepared in Photoshop. Big books with that many pages can get pretty sluggish when you’re working on them.</p><p></p><p>So, when a relative donated me this “new” Mac, I heard the siren song of a faster and more capable computer, and thought that all I had to do get it was move the drives from my old machine to the new one.</p><p></p><p>And actually (once it’s running) this “new” Mac behaves fine except for not being able to see the three 8TB drives after a restart. That is no big deal, of course, because it always sees them on a cold start, but it makes me wonder whether something else might not be working right in this Mac’s brain. I’d sure hate to have a 500-page book, for example, or a two-hour video corrupted in the end by a bad logic board or something.</p><p></p><p>So, what would you guys do in my place? Are the benefits to be gained by this “new” Mac worth all the trouble of sorting out these problems? Or would it be best to just go back back to the slower, but tried-and-true, Mac that I was using before? After all, the turtle beats the hare if the hare won’t run, or if he has a defective motherboard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tuppy, post: 1886265, member: 408224"] Thanks much, Horsa and MacAllread. Yes, I not only ran Disk Utility’s First Aid through all these drives but I also ran Disk Warrior through the three 8TB drives. These apps found nothing wrong with the drives. Okay, I just took drives #2 and #3 out of the Mac, leaving only #4 and the startup drive (which is a new 2TB Crucial MX500 SSD that worked fine in the old box). By the way drives 2, 3, and 4 are all the same: Western Digital 8TB Ultrastar SATA 7200 RPM Enterprise-class drives. My old Mac had no trouble with any of them—they behaved like any of the smaller drives I’ve had in that box over the years. Then I had Disk Utility erase and reformat Drive #4. I then restarted the Mac several times, and Drive 4 still never showed up on the desktop on any of the restarts, just like before. However, it does show up just fine on cold starts, just like before. So nothing has changed. Another little glitch is now showing up with this “new” Mac. It now takes several pushes on the startup button before it will start. The first push usually does nothing, nor does pushing and holding the button a while. In most cases (it’s unpredictable) it requires poking at the button several times while saying bad words before the computer will start up. If this is just a problem with the switch itself, maybe I can take a switch out of one of the old G5 boxes that I have out in the garage, and switch switches. But this new switch trouble, plus the possibility of a faulty logic board or other hardware problem, is making this “new” machine seem less and less attractive to me now. The whole point of this exercise—switching from my old Mac Pro to a supposedly more capable one—was to gain some speed while doing such things as rendering video in Final Cut Studio, or speeding up the Adobe CS6 suite of programs, and any other benefits of a faster Mac. And in fact those programs do seem “snappier” in this new Mac Pro, from what little I’ve done with them so far. Here is the difference between the two boxes: My “old” Mac Pro is a mid-2010 2.28 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon with 32 GB of memory. This “new” Mac Pro is a mid-2010 2 X 3.33GHz 6-core Intel Xeon with 64 GB of memory. I realize that I can switch the memory from one box to the other, but the “new” Mac not only has a faster processor, it has two of them, as well as another couple of cores, whatever cores are (more cores sounds good). I was hoping this would be a faster Mac because I spend a lot of time in Final Cut Studio 3, creating videos with a lot of special effects in them, and some of my videos are two hours long. Video, as you know if you’ve done any, requires a lot of rendering that can really slow the work down. I’ve also been using InDesign to create books, one of them 800 pages long with 375 maps and photos, with the photos and other illustrations being prepared in Photoshop. Big books with that many pages can get pretty sluggish when you’re working on them. So, when a relative donated me this “new” Mac, I heard the siren song of a faster and more capable computer, and thought that all I had to do get it was move the drives from my old machine to the new one. And actually (once it’s running) this “new” Mac behaves fine except for not being able to see the three 8TB drives after a restart. That is no big deal, of course, because it always sees them on a cold start, but it makes me wonder whether something else might not be working right in this Mac’s brain. I’d sure hate to have a 500-page book, for example, or a two-hour video corrupted in the end by a bad logic board or something. So, what would you guys do in my place? Are the benefits to be gained by this “new” Mac worth all the trouble of sorting out these problems? Or would it be best to just go back back to the slower, but tried-and-true, Mac that I was using before? After all, the turtle beats the hare if the hare won’t run, or if he has a defective motherboard. [/QUOTE]
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