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A RAID Array to go with your shiny new Mac Pro Sir?
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Steve Connor
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but it’s so boxy!
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But it does 4k so nobody will ever find it useful. It’s just marketing baloney.
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RIght!
How could I be so silly.
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Does anyone know if you could load these things with SSDs? And if so, what sort of performance you’d see?
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Dan,
yes, you can load these things with SSD drives, and your question, is the #1 question I have when I get my hands on a Tbolt 2 interface – how fast will it go ! This is a critical question, and for me, will determine if the 2008-2012 Mac Pro can truly be retired.
Remember, you can get 1500 MB/sec with any 16 bay SATA RAID array, using a 2008 3,1 Mac Pro, so the benchmark for a new Mac Pro with Tbolt 2 is to at least be able to do that.Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
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Bob – Do you achieve that with direct attach dual 8 Gb fibre channel? That is serious speed. It equates to 12 Gbs, which I know they have for fibre interconnects, but I’ve never seen on an HBA.
Keith
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You’d get that with any decent 8x HBA as long as it’s sitting in an 8x slot. Even with only 8 6G drives an an Areca card in an 8x slot you’re getting beyond 1100 in Raid 6 mode.
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Hey Frank! what’s happening? Long time man!
A “little birdie” has told me that it is possible to saturate the 20 Gb t-bolt pipe with the 8 sled box. I didn’t get confirmation of the type of drives or stripe. I would imagine it’s got to be raid0.
20 Gbs = 2560 MBs
There has to be some overhead though.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “but it’s so boxy!”
The embarrassing part will be when someone tries to insert a USB stick into it, thinking it’s the CPU… meanwhile the other guy is pouring a beverage into the fan of your MacPro thinking it’s an aluminum beverage holder…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Doing fine, thanks for asking Keith. Having a peek in here every now and then.
I think you’ll see rates of around 1200 with TB2 on average, not much higher. It’s still PCIe 4x at it’s core and this is pretty much what initial demos of TB2 raids peaked at.
Which, of course, is very fast and sufficient for most people.[Keith Koby] “Hey Frank! what’s happening? Long time man!
A “little birdie” has told me that it is possible to saturate the 20 Gb t-bolt pipe with the 8 sled box. I didn’t get confirmation of the type of drives or stripe. I would imagine it’s got to be raid0.
20 Gbs = 2560 MBs
There has to be some overhead though.
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