**Mac Pro Ordered**

PAC2008 said:
Will have to give this some thought then!!!
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Count yourself lucky you didn't install everything then go to install Windows and find it doesn't work. I know someone (myself) who did that.

What do you need Windows for anyway? I'm considering selling my Windows and moving entirely to OS X and go for a nice RAID setup. Call of Duty 4 being on OS X also is helping the decision.
 
All I want Boot Camp for is gaming, games that are not on Mac. I have VMware for any Windows Apps.

It's all up in the air at the moment, but I just want 1TB at least for storage that I know is backed up in Mirrored Raid.

I have a Time Capsule (500GB) which I could sell and then put to to buy the 1TB?

All if, buts & maybes at the moment.

I still haven't even thought what monitor I want, what speakers, what tv card etc...Then obviously more Memory from the US of A.

Madness I tell thee, madnes...
 
Can I just clarify that OS X won't boot from a RAID (without a RAID card)?

Otherwise it's 1TB array time :D
 
Slogan said:
It'll boot fine from RAID. (is that what you wanted? :D)
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Awww damn you Slogan! yes it was :D

Just ordered another 1TB.. *Dr Evil finger*

At least this way I can have ALL my music and ALL my TV shows ripped to the drive without worrying about storage, and if that fails I'll buy Windows and dual-boot.
 
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EVH said:
Awww damn you Slogan! yes it was :D

Just ordered another 1TB.. *Dr Evil finger*

At least this way I can have ALL my music and ALL my TV shows ripped to the drive without worrying about storage, and if that fails I'll buy Windows and dual-boot.
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I had two 640gbs in RAID0 as we talked about a while ago the performance was great, killed me to break that down to install Windows and there was a considerable performance/speed loss. Obviously it was still lightening on a single drive setup but I think you shall enjoy the 1tb RAID.

They're bound to sort that Bootcamp thing in the future too. Or so you'd hope.
 
It's due to arrive tomorrow.. hopefully I'll get some pics up!

Compressed air cleaning for the win!! :D
 
I have a macpro on the shopping list, to finally retire my 2*G4. What annoys me the most is the price of the EEC memory. Heck I can buy 8GB of non-ecc for the price of just one 2GB stick for the mac pro. Speak of overkill :/
I think I'll wait till the WWDC anyway, they might bump them at about that point, and maybe the RAM will have come down a bit in price...
 
@ EVH.

Do you know of any manufacturers (Samsung, Dell, etc.) that supply Mac Monitor drivers with their screens?

I know its not important, just would be nice to know, for the sake of it.
 
BusError said:
I have a macpro on the shopping list, to finally retire my 2*G4. What annoys me the most is the price of the EEC memory. Heck I can buy 8GB of non-ecc for the price of just one 2GB stick for the mac pro. Speak of overkill :/
I think I'll wait till the WWDC anyway, they might bump them at about that point, and maybe the RAM will have come down a bit in price...
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Buy the RAM from the USA. I did, now I have 16GB for roughly £400.

Also, @Slogan: What is the best RAID block size, say, for encoding DVD files? I've got it on the default at the moment, just wondering if you had any experience?
 
Aye, cheers :cool:

Once the RAID is zero-filled I'll benchmark it, that way, I got direct comparisons with and without.. according to disk utility, it'll take 3hrs to zero-fill the 1.8TB RAID!!!

Oh, and I took pictures but I can't get them off the mrs' cheap point and click.. If I can find a memory card I'll whip them up.
 
NickK said:
I assume you went for 4x2 ? (If I've asked this before.. it's late!)
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Yeah, the 2GB sticks were the best way to fill all the slots without spending a fortune.

16GB is more than enough for me, besides.
 
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