topic New Mac Pro in Installation & update

New Mac Pro

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:22:09 GMT

Hi,

I am a new member and I want to buy a new Mac Pro; I want to know your opinion for that configuration:

Mac Pro CTO Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon /320GB/SD/MAC OSX LEOPARD

OPTIONALS (plus):
2 X HDD 320 GB SATA
1 X NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800GT 512 MB
8 GB RAM ( 2 x KIT 4 GB)
MAC PRO RAID CARD

and I want to use raid 5

Re: New Mac Pro

Dwight — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:59:58 GMT

Excellent choice!

Get 12 GB RAM

Buy your additional drives aftermarket - they are easy to install and getting cheaper all the time. I am putting in 1TB drives as required.

The RAID 5 system is a waste considering modern drive reliability. Use Time machine to back up instead.

Re: New Mac Pro

drh64 — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:48:19 GMT

12 gb of Ram????
Are you serious?

Will that much really make a difference?

Re: New Mac Pro

Dwight — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:58:33 GMT

You are surprised by this advice. Why would I jerk a guy planning an esoteric RAID around by recommending excessive RAM? He is obviously aiming for the elite.

My personal experience is that the Mac Pro can use about 12Gb with everything that i use switched on and rendering. Usually two Archicads, Artlantis, Cinema, Photoshoppe stuff, etc.

And any ordinary day it hovers around eight.

I put sixteen Gigamegz in for plenty of headroom. It is cheap. 8x2Gb i think.