Highpoint technologies has announced that its rocketraid 232x and 2310 serial ata sata ii raid controllers support apples mac pro. Create a disk set using disk utility on mac apple support. Using apple s raid utility software included with mac os x v10. Mac pro is designed for pros who need the ultimate in cpu performance. Basically the os handles everything and no special hardware or card is needed. Apple mac pro raid card storage controller raid sata.
Highpoint offers mac procompatible raid controller macworld. It can either be performed in the host servers cpu software raid, or in an external cpu hardware raid. List of all wd firmware and software available for download. Hello all, im seeking some advice on which sas raid controller to get for my mac pro 5,1. In a hardware raid setup, the drives connect to a raid controller card inserted in a fast pciexpress pcie slot in a motherboard. During amug tests with many different macintosh raid controllers it has been found that striped raid sets created with disk utility software based can usually provide similar or higher performance than a raid 0 that was created with the raid cards web manager. Just posting this here in an effort to see if there is some. Heres what you need to know a hardware raid can be pricey but it helps prevent data loss and improve performance. Because the motherboard connection to the 4 internal drive bays are different, you need to use different cablesmounts from the minisas controller to your internal drives. Sas raid controller for mac pro 5,1 macrumors forums. We do also provide hardware raid controllers for the mac pro 5,1 at create pro.
One of the major changes was that apple removed any ability to set up and configure a redundant array of independent disks raid. Lets start the hardware vs software raid battle with the hardware side. Dear ncarrion, i successfully used the the newer technology maxpower raid minisas 6g1e1i controller to upgrade my late 2010 mac pro macpro5,1. Raid 5 geht nur mit extra raidcontroller, dann sollte es aber problemlos gehen. Apple stopped actively developing appleraid in 2009,removing full support for it in mac os x 10. From production rendering to playing hundreds of virtual instruments to simulating an ios app on multiple devices at once, its exceedingly capable. I was not aware that apple had ever produced a raid card for the. Apple mac pro raid card is an sas controller computerworld. At the heart of the system is an intel xeon processor with up to 28 cores the most ever in a mac. Apple mac pro raid card storage controller raid sata 3gbs sas pcie x4 series sign in to comment. You can create a redundant array of independent disks raid set to optimize storage performance and increase reliability in case of a disk failure. The raid software layer sits above the device drivers and provides the link from physical drive to. Complete with on board battery and controller for extra security. You can also create a set that concatenates smaller disks to act as one larger disk.
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