The case has a small bend on the back handle which occurred when the guy I bought it off of did not put styrofoam or cardboard between the handle and the body. Regardless of what you choose (SSD, HD, RAID0, etc.), you'll need a back-up solution in any case: in that sense, the "risk" of a RAID0 is meaningless.Apple Mac Pro 2009 4,1 that has been upgraded to a 5,1/2012 with 2 3.33 GHZ 6 Core Xeon CPUs, 256 GB SPCC SSD, 64GB of Ram, NVIDIA Quadro K2000 2GB GPU (no boot screen), MacOS Mohave, Aftermarket AirPort card installed in the factory location, and 4 port USB 3.0 Card installed. Everything is risky without a complete back-up solution, and a RAID1 is NOT a back-up solution. GPU: the 5770 is more than enough for PS and video work.Īs for RAID0 being "risky", that's just theoretical boloney. But if you get out a stopwatch and measure actual app performance, you will be disappointed.
I have a SSD, and the Mac is indeed snappier. Enough RAM = SSD won't matter for Photoshop fast enough RAID0 = SSD won't help you much with video. You rarely boot your Mac, or the apps you constantly use in any case. SSD: boot times and app launch times are meaningless for a working professional. If you can get 3-4 drives in that RAID0 set, partition them and RAID the fastest portions of the drives together. The only way to get that without a much bigger budget is to get a RAID0 set with as most drives as you can fit in the Mac Pro. HD: you need both ample room (for video) and a lot of sequential read/write performance. Going to 3.33 is a roughly 20% boost, and those extra cores will help you with some video apps. Check your page-in / page-out ratio after a couple of hours of work: if it's very high, you won't get a significant benefit from more RAM.ĬPU: for image / video work, more clock speed will always be better. Read most of the replies, and IMO you got some strange info. 1TB drives are cheap enough now that you get really great capacity and they can easily be RAIDed using Disk Utility. I know there are 3TB and 4TB drives around now, but I have no experience with them. You need to make sure that you are using two identical drives when doing the RAID-0, I would recommend two 1TB or 2TB drives which are cheap enough these days. The advantage to using a RAID-0 stripe (as said before) is that you get 2x the read and write speeds that you would get with one hard drive alone. If you run RAID-0 and carry super important data such as family photos, home movies, or work data, etc, then a backup to an external disk (or internal would be the ideal way to go. I would not do a 3 or 4 drive RAID0 at all, although very fast, that increases your odds of failure because if you lose one of those 3 or 4 drives, then all your data is zapped and unrecoverable. I meant increase the speed of boot.Īlso, RAID0 is the way to go (with two drives). Yes, I did mean "decrease" boot times when using the SSD. The speed increase is tangible, no more waiting for apps to boot or for files to load, it really does make a huge difference. Once you have gone SSD, there is no turning back, it is like night and day. I have an OWC 120GB SSD in my Mac Pro and a 256GB Toshiba Apple SSD in my MacBook Pro.
A 240, 256GB or 512GB SSD might be more suitable on a MacBook if it is your only drive. Anything larger than this is not necessary on a Mac Pro if you have extra HDs installed. The size of SSD I would recommend is 120GB. You can alias your iTunes folder to the RAID as well as Photos, Movies, etc or re-locate your Home folder (I alias and it works great). I would recommend running a 2-disk RAID-0 array on your Mac Pro to hold your music, photos and video (all large files) which would otherwise fill your SSD. Having a boot disk SSD with all of your Apps loaded will allow you to have hyper-fast Application boots and web browsing will be instantaneous.
It will drastically increase your boot times as well as your Application Loading Times, Media Loading times, and webpage renders.
#2012 apple mac pro xeon 6 core 3.33 ghz upgrade#
I personally believe a Solid-State drive (if you already have ample RAM) is the best upgrade you can add to any machine.
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