Best Raid Storage For Mac

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Hard Drive Disk, Solid State Drive or Flash Storage? Newgrounds games. Which Mac Pro storage option is the best. Choosing a storage option for you Mac Pro used to be as easy as deciding how much data your hard drive disk (HDD) needed to store.

These days it’s a little more complicated with the solid state drive drive (SSD) being able to viably store ever increasing amounts a data, as well as flash storage options becoming more commonly available. Add to this TRIM, RAID configurations and PCI-E slot based storage and you’re in for a world of difficult decisions.

Hopefully this article will give you the information you need to make the process a lot less painful. We’re going to take in in depth look at HDDs, SSDs, and flash storage.

We will also consider the ways in which they can be configured and how they affect performance and reliability. Each type of drive has specific strengths that make them suited to certain types of storage and each come in at different price points, a factor that will also be analysed. Whether you’re building your dream Mac Pro, or a budget system that needs to perform, we’re here to help with all the information you need. So without further ado, let’s get into the comparisons. HDD: Great value storage ideal for large volumes of data Hard Drive Disks (HDD) store information on traditional spinning disks, they come in 3.5″ (the size the Mac Pro uses) and 2.5″ (laptop format).

HDDs ruled the storage roost unopposed for around 50 years (up until the mass market introduction of SSDs in around 2007/08) and are now the elder statesmen in the storage game. They are tried and tested and can store the largest amount of data of the three options, up to 6TB (due to HDD current size limit). The Mac Pro can support up to 5 HDDs, 4 in the HDD slots and 1 in the lower disk bay using an adapter, giving up to 30TB of internal storage. HDDs are also the cheapest of the trio per TB of storage with the standard Toshiba drive we tested coming in at £42.50/€53.50/$67 per TB. HDDs have, however, left their glory days behind and although they are the cheapest and have the largest volume of all storage options they are also the slowest. A typical 7200RPM HDD will read and write data at around 180MB/s which is considerably slower than an SSD and a fraction of the speed that flash storage is capable of.

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It should also be considered that the more data you have stored on your HDD the slower it will become, it is not advisable to fill more than 50% of a HDD’s capacity and you should never use more than 80%. HDDs are also the least reliable of the three (not that they break constantly, they are just more vulnerable to problems due to the nature of storing information on spinning disks). We recommend all users back up their data regardless of the storage type they use, therefore should your HDD fail, you will only lose the time spent restoring it. It is possible to RAID HDDs together to increase read and write performance, but this would require a separate RAID card to be installed at an extra cost. HDD Summary Great for: • Storing large amounts of data at a low cost Cons: • Not ideal for storing everyday working applications and data if you require fast read & write speeds • HDD drives become slower as you store more data on them • Moving parts can occasionally cause problems SSD: Great performance and ever increasing storage capacity First introduced to the mass market around 2007/08, solid state drives (SSD) are now establishing their position as a financially viable storage solution. Capacity of SSD devices currently tops out at 1TB but they come in a wide variety of capacities up to this point.

As their name suggests SSDs contain no moving parts and for this reason they are less prone to failure than HDD drives. They are also speedier than HDDs and can be installed on PCI-E slots, providing considerable read and write speed increases. SSDs generally come in the 2.5″ laptop HDD format, but can be installed into the Mac Pro’s HDD bays using a caddy. The Mac Pro can support 5 SSDs in HDD bays and 3 more on PCI-E slots (as one slot will be taken by your GPU). SSDs have always been more expensive than HDDs per TB storage capacity, the first 64GB SSD Apple launched in the MacBook Air cost $999.

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Prices are, however, now becoming more reasonable. The SSD we tested, the Samsung 840 EVO 1TB, costs £400/€504/$632 per TB when installed in a HDD bay and £450/€567/$711 per TB when installed on a PCI-E slot (due to adapter costs). At a cost of around 10x more than traditional HDD drives per TB storage, as you may expect, you get much better performance from an SSD. In a HDD bay you can expect to see 270MB/s read speeds and 260MB/s write speeds. This is a decent jump and is more than noticeable if you are using your SSD to store working data and applications. SSDs, however, have another trick up their sleeve, TRIM. TRIM enables SSDs installed in Mac Pro systems to perform at their best regardless of the amount of data stored on the drive (TRIM must be enabled using TRIM enabler software, this currently does not work in 10.10).