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OWC Mercury Accelsior PCI Express SSD

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Seems like a serious alternative to RAID 5/6, if your main purpose for it is bandwidth, and storage is incidental

But buying PCIe 2 cards now, when the new MacPro's will be PCIe 3, might not be good
 
joe hedge said:
Seems like a serious alternative to RAID 5/6, if your main purpose for it is bandwidth, and storage is incidental

But buying PCIe 2 cards now, when the new MacPro's will be PCIe 3, might not be good
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I would only ever use RAID 5/6 for storage and not for my OS. I am just trying to stretch the life of my Mac Pro until I can get a new one once it is announced next.
 
Adam Welch said:
I would only ever use RAID 5/6 for storage and not for my OS. I am just trying to stretch the life of my Mac Pro until I can get a new one once it is announced next.
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For DIT's, storage isn't so much of a priority since, usually, everything is going to post on a daily basis anyway

But 600/800 MBps comes in mighty handy for simultaneous downloading/transcoding/playback of transcodes/synccing audio

That bandwidth costs 6-8 grand with an 8 bay (or bigger) RAID, and depends on 8 or more spinning hard drives not failing, that weighs almost as much as the MacPro does

Whereas for $1600 you get 1 TB with 800 MBps, on an SSD with no moving parts, that weighs about 2 pounds (if that)

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDPHW2R960/

Might get one anyway, even if PCIe 3 is on the way
 
Gabriel Scindian said:
SAS works great. I ordered the OWC Mercury Rack Pro SAS and ATTO card to go into my Magma EB3T. 8TB for my vid, photo and post work. Very Fast
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Good to know! Love hearing great reviews about hardware before I purchase.
 
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