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Thread ID: 136721	2014-04-06 12:26:00	Cylindrical Mac Pro's ...	Nomad (952)	PC World Chat

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1372077	2014-04-06 12:26:00	Just wondering, a rich photo fanatic (of his hobby) got this after hiis prev 8yr old again Mac Pro . He also has a iPhone and a Mac Pro Book . Yeah tell me about it :lol: I watched a video on it . . . what are PCIe disk space? I guess one could get them on PCs as well? On these machines are the other storage external plugged to Thunderbolt? He also has the Promise RAID systems that houses 4x HDDs which is Thunderbolt on this custom order page it shows: . apple . com/nz/buy-mac/mac-pro?product=ME253X/A&step=config" target="_blank">store . apple . com If one wants large storage it's probably not SSD right on those Promise units . So a normal rotary HD on Thunderbolt but it's not gonna go that fast right? But yeah a cool $5k min on that system or $6 . 5k depending on model plus a $2k Promise HD unit .	Nomad (952)
1372078	2014-04-06 12:42:00	Pcie solid state storage is the next step after sata ssd's. Solid state as well but much faster again.	CYaBro (73)
1372079	2014-04-06 13:14:00	Promise units those sad?Google says platter hdds	Nomad (952)
1372080	2014-04-06 13:22:00	PCI-e SSD is faster than SATA SSD, my Vaio Pro with PCI-e SSD boots from cold in under 5 seconds. Pretty much as in this video ... www.youtube.com Why SSDs are Transitioning from SATA to PCIe in the Next Gen Form Factor www.tested.com Is PCIe SSD Always Faster? www.storage-switzerland.com	Geek4414 (12000)
1372081	2014-04-06 13:31:00	If one wants large storage it's probably not SSD right on those Promise units. So a normal rotary HD on Thunderbolt but it's not gonna go that fast right? It supports RAID, so you could run RAID0 or RAID10 for highspeed reads/writes. And yes PCIe SSDs are available on desktops. They are faster because they remove the bottleneck of going through a SATA controller.	icow (15313)
1372082	2014-04-06 23:04:00	If you like having a PC that looks like a rubbish tin.. great.	Agent_24 (57)
1372083	2014-04-06 23:14:00	If you like having a PC that looks like a rubbish tin.. great. No it's a Dalek! Arrgggh..... www.gearslutz.com Looks like a pig of a thing to work on. Oh, that's right, it's a MAc, you don't.	pctek (84)
1372084	2014-04-07 01:03:00	There isn't really a need for your bulk storage to be super fast, you just move files to your SSD when you're working on them if you need a heap of speed. As someone else has said, you could run a Raid 5 or 10 on the disk if you want the speed/redundancy. Nothing to stop you putting SSD's in the external storage going forward. Doesn't look hard to work on to me, but not going to find a lot of aftermarket parts for it, except RAM/CPU. Haters gonna hate :)	Alex B (15479)
1372085	2014-04-07 01:20:00	But I want to put SSDs in the external storage going backwards...	Agent_24 (57)
1372086	2014-04-07 11:03:00	There isn't really a need for your bulk storage to be super fast, you just move files to your SSD when you're working on them if you need a heap of speed. As someone else has said, you could run a Raid 5 or 10 on the disk if you want the speed/redundancy. Nothing to stop you putting SSD's in the external storage going forward. Doesn't look hard to work on to me, but not going to find a lot of aftermarket parts for it, except RAM/CPU. Haters gonna hate :) I've certainly seen plenty of commend about the design of the new Mac Pro, not all of them are favourable. According to the Apple website you have to wait about 5 weeks for delivery due to the high demand for them. As to their performance, apparently they can do about 50 channels of 4K video simultaneously and not even blink. Not sure how they go for a gaming machine though.	Webdevguy (17166)
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