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Is the Seagate Cheetah ST3300007LW 10K 300 GB HD (68Pin) mac pro compatible?
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Is the Seagate Cheetah ST3300007LW 10K 300 GB Hard Drive (68Pin) mac pro compatible?
And what the best to place is to buy such HDs?
Thanks,
John
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No. The Mac Pro takes SATA drives.
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No, that drive is SCSI which the Mac Pro doesn't support. If you want a faster drive for the Mac Pro, buy a Western Digital Raptor (10k RPM, up to 150GB).
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Yup. You can have the fastest Intel CPUs money can buy on the MacPro, oodles of RAM, but there's NO WAY Apple is ever going to let you put a seriously fast hard drive inside the machine.
A Raptor is absolutely no match for a 15Krpm SCSI or SAS hard drive. Too bad the original poster wants to use a 10K SCSI drive. Stick 4 500GB SATA drives in RAID 0+1 and be done with it. 1TB of space with 3x the read performance and 2x the write performance of a Raptor, and redundancy to boot.
Are the SATA hard drives in the MacPro connected to an integral power+data slot soldered to the motherboard as a backplane connector, or to individual power+data cables being routed to somewhere else on the motherboard? Somehow, I'm almost sure that Apple chose the backplane route, in which case you're stuffed and have to use external storage for SCSI/SAS because the SATA connectors are keyed to refuse SAS drives.
If not - a bit of a hack - you might try to find a SAS PCIe controller, disconnect the MacPro's SATA data cables from the drive cage and connect a SAS data cable directly to the SAS controller. That'll ruin the pretty insides of the MacPro but it will give you proper workstation HD performance.
(Last edited by tigas; Apr 8, 2007 at 05:58 PM.
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My Mac is a Pismo G4/550: 1GB RAM, 40GB 5.4k, Airport, DVD-R, and still black, silent and curvaceous!
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Well, to be more precise, the Mac Pro doesn't support SCSI drives out of the box. You can of course add an Ultra 320 PCI Express card to the machine yourself (hmm... when did Apple stop offering SCSI as a BTO option).
On the other hand, the drives are expensive, the SCSI card is expensive, and the performance advantage over SATA drives is real but not enormous in most cases.
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Tigas, remember that Apple only relatively recently shifted away from SCSI. I have a set of Ultra160 SCSI drives in my G4. When Steve Jobs announced the migration away from SCSI on the XServe, he noted that the performance and cost made it an easy decision. If you really want high speed, consider a disk array (on board you could use RAID 0 or with cards you could use RAID 5).
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