Massive storage.
The Mac Pro comes with four 3.5-inch internal hard drive bays for an enormous amount of internal storage — up to 4TB when you install four 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drives.1 Each bay provides its own independent 3Gb/s channel for fast access to data. And thanks to the cable-free, direct-attach installation system, adding (or replacing) hard drives is a surprisingly simple process.
Mac Pro RAID Card RAID Levels
Maximum performance and capacity for demanding I/O requirements. Data spans multiple drives to deliver incredible read and write performance. No redundancy.
Maximum protection for critical data. Identical data is written to multiple drives simultaneously.
Data protection against a drive failure, strong performance, and efficient capacity utilization.
A mirror of striped drive pairs providing higher performance than RAID 1 and stronger data protection than RAID 0.
Ready to RAID — with a new card.
For the ultimate in data protection and enhanced performance, add the new Mac Pro RAID Card with 512MB of RAID cache, a 72-hour cache-protecting battery, and hardware RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 0+1. A new cableless connection and intuitive Apple software make it a snap to install this optional card. It’s the perfect solution for workgroup servers, video pros working with high-bit-rate assets, or anyone who wants to protect critical data.
Even without a RAID card, Mac OS X lets you stripe two, three, or all four hard drives in a RAID 0 array to increase performance and create a massive volume for tasks such as video editing; or create a RAID 1 mirror to protect digital media assets from a drive failure.
Double-layer burner times two.
Sure it’s great to have one 18x SuperDrive at your disposal, but think how much more productive you could be with two. Imagine backing up your data to two double-layer DVDs at once. Or burning Aperture projects to one DVD, while importing music from a CD into your iTunes library. With two optical drive bays in every system, the Mac Pro lets you do exactly that.
SAS RAID 5 vs SATA RAID 5. Read and write performance.
Testing conducted by Apple in February 2009 using preproduction Mac Pro 8-core 2.93GHz units and preproduction Mac Pro RAID Card. Testing was conducted using Iometer 2006.07.27 with a 30-second ramp-up, 5-minute run duration, 512KB request size, and 4 outstanding IOs. The test system was configured in a two-volume configuration with a single JBOD drive for the OS and the remaining three drives as the test volume on which Iometer tests were performed. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Mac Pro RAID Card.
Simultaneous Final Cut Studio 2 Streams.
Three-drive SAS RAID 5 vs. SATA RAID 5 performance.
Testing conducted by Apple in February 2009 using preproduction Mac Pro 8-core 2.93GHz units and preproduction Mac Pro RAID Card. Testing was conducted with Final Cut Pro 6.0.5 using simultaneous unique 10-minute clips for each content type. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Mac Pro RAID Card.
- 1TB = 1 trillion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.
