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Mike Rogerson
December 11, 2018 at 3:35 pm in reply to: Deciphering Macbook Pro specs (updating laptop time)

Having just purchased a new (2018) MBPro build to order with i7, 16Gb RAM & 1Tb drive, I can assure you the speed difference over the older Thunderbolt MBP with removable SSDs is significant!

I like you, was upset when Apple started to solder the RAM & now SSD to the motherboard, but as long as you spec the best you can afford, I don’t think you’ll be sorry.

Just as a guide, I bought a Samsung 1Tb SSD as a backup, and via Carbon Copy cloner, it only took 50 mins to backup 500+ of data, whereas before, it would take hours over Thunderbolt, and a day over FireWire!

Enjoy your new MacBook whichever way you decide to go.

Cheers
Mike R
Mike Rogerson
November 26, 2015 at 5:01 pm in reply to: Promise Pegasus drives

Do you sell these into the UK? Only I looked at your website and it appeared to be USA only
Mike Rogerson
November 26, 2015 at 11:23 am in reply to: Promise Pegasus drives

Ron, 100% agree with you, sadly Promise don’t support enterprise drives in the R6 or any of their DAS RAIDS!

I spoke with their tech support and they say unless we use the Seagate or Toshiba desktop drives they won’t support us.

The real joke is that they can’t be bothered to test any drives that have been released in the last 3 years, so at some point none of their ‘recommended’ drives will be available to purchase, leaving all R series users in the proverbial …
Mike Rogerson
November 25, 2015 at 4:01 pm in reply to: Promise Pegasus drives

Although the original post is over 2 years ago, I thought I’d share my recent woes with a Promise R6 using the recommended Seagate drives.
Over the last 3 years, we’ve had 7 Seagate drives fail in the two raids, and despite querying this with Promise support, all they can offer is to use the Seagate or Toshiba (discontinued) desktop HD’s.
Tech support say that non of their DAS raids support enterprise or RAID specific (WD RED or RED Pro) drives and that we’re on our own if we change models away from the only two drives they list!

So looks like it’s bye bye to Promise kit.

I can only say from past experience of SCSI through to SSD, Seagate have been the worst drives in our history, followed by the cheap WD Green & Blue. Hitachi unto a few years ago were fine, and recently the WD RED (in 4 to 6 bay RAIDS) & RED Pro have been the most reliable.
Mike Rogerson
March 3, 2014 at 4:49 pm in reply to: Microphone

I’ve had good feedback from clients using the ‘Blue Microphone’ studio series