question about OWC Multi-Mount 3.5” to 5.25” bracket set

[Mika Joon]

I’m thinking the same, 6th drive and external optical, that’s a possible 12 tb internal raid 0 with the new western digital caviar blacks each reaching 138 mbs

That would be roughly 550 mbs internal raid

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Arthur,

The other bracket options, which allow you to install 2 hard drives, seem to be for 2.5 inch hard disks. These hard disks are for laptop computers and run slower than the 3.5 inch disks so that’s why we’ve suggested the 3.5” to 5.25” bracket.

There may well be other brands of brackets with other options and they should be fine too but we haven’t tested with them.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Ola Haldor voll]

If I’m not mistaken, SSD disks are 2.5″ too, so potentially you could have one or two SSDs in RAID for the OS as well.

[Illya Laney]

You can mix SSD’s with regular drives now? Awesome. They didn’t have that option for 2008 models.

twitter.com/illyalaney
Motion Design, Color, Editing
SWGC Incorporated

[Ola Haldor voll]

I have no idea. Never even touched SSD disks myself. I would be surprised if it won’t work though. Maybe I’m not up for to the task 🙂

[Paul Nordin]

You can mix regular drives with SSDs in the same box. You cannot mix them in the same RAID Array. So a reasonable scenario would be to have 2-SSD raided to be the System Drive, and 4-magnetic drives RAIDED for working storage.

_______________________
El Mundo Bueno Studios
Film * Audio
http://www.EMBstudios.com
Emeryville, CA
_______________________

[Arthur Puig]

It seems like it’s design issue to accommodate the Mac Pros 2009/10, I used something similar in my first gen intel, but instead of having one drive, I had two, all fitting in the lower bay, and I noiced that for other models other than 2009/10 you can do that with OWC.
I’m going to sacrifice my internal DVD drive and add an extra drive mounted with OWC, and use an external DVD instead.
I’d rather have a 5 drive raid than 4.