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Anyone tried Seagate 1.5TB drives in RAID on Mac Pro?
These things just came out and are cheap, but i called the Apple store and they said “we only support 1TB drives up to 4TB” which doesn’t mean they wouldn’t work just that they don’t promise anything. I really want to get 4 of these in a RAID 0 for 6 TB in the box – anyone know if there are any hard limits, like max 2TB on one RAID 0 logical drive?
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I just noticed them at OWC… I called their TS and they said they are not ready… they are slow and have to be partitioned when in external enclosures.
1) Anyone try them in a Mac Pro internally?
2) Have you tried them in an external enclosure such as an Wiebetech RTX100?
R
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i ended up getting 4 of them and installing internally, boot drive in external FW enclosure. had a weird problem when created a raid 0 on all 4 – stuff on the drive would sometimes not show up in finder but if you select all + copy they were still there / copied. Since then i reduced to raid 0 on 3 of them and 1 stand alone and everything is working fine. haven’t tried all 4 again – not sure if that was a fluke or what.
happy w/ the purchase overall – tonnes of space and fast RAID.
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What about the performance… have you evaluated that part of the change to these new drives?
Thanks,
Robert
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