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I don't mindHCMarkus wrote:
I (sort of) hate to come off like an SSD evangelist,
. Buy as many and as big as you can afford and use for startup, streaming samples, and even recording. Not only faster booting, but DP projects and VIs load much faster.Neither exactly. I'm just trying to determine if this machine is sound before I get rid of the 2007. It seems fishy that those operations are slower, but maybe it's the difference in clock speed, RAM and OS that cause these symptoms, and not anything inherently wrong with this particular machine. …and yes, yes. An SSD is a high priority!HCMarkus wrote:Not sure if you are comparing the computers or operating systems dix.
My point is, unless you boot your two Macs from the same startup disk, you are comparing apples to oranges. Swap your Snow Leopard drive into your new Mac and see how it compares. And peruse the afore-mentioned Geekbench single threaded scores for the respective machines to get an idea how the per-core speed of your machines compares.dix wrote:Neither exactly. I'm just trying to determine if this machine is sound before I get rid of the 2007. It seems fishy that those operations are slower, but maybe it's the difference in clock speed, RAM and OS that cause these symptoms, and not anything inherently wrong with this particular machine. …and yes, yes. An SSD is a high priority!HCMarkus wrote:Not sure if you are comparing the computers or operating systems dix.
Thx!
A good idea, but for whatever reason the 2009 is no longer happy booting into 2007's drive. It was before, but not now (?) and I'm not sure I have the patience to trouble shoot just for this test. Apart from these anomalies everything seems solid so I'm probably okay. Thanks again.Swap your Snow Leopard drive into your new Mac and see how it compares. And peruse the afore-mentioned Geekbench single threaded scores for the respective machines to get an idea how the per-core speed of your machines compares.
Finally getting around to getting a SSD for my boot drive. Can I use the optical bay to boot into, or does it need to go into the #1 drive bay? If I can use the optical bay to boot into, what hardware adapter would I need (if any) Thanks!HCMarkus wrote:Get an SSD or two if you can afford it for your boot and VI sample drives. If your HD bays are filled, you have room for one SSD or more in the optical bay. On 4,1 and 5,1 MPs the optical bay data ports are SATA.
If you think it might get bumped or will need to move it, Velcro with the sticky tape backing work great. A couple or three squares is all you need.dix wrote:Okay. I'm answering my own stupid question in case anyone else needs to know.
So according to the internet there is hardware you can buy to secure the SSD in the optical bay, but since there's no moving parts in a SSD it's safe to just set it in the optical bay. And yes (duh), you can specify in the Startup Disk Preference where the Mac should look for the boot drive.
No clue what that means MMmonkey man wrote:Yeah, like me, Magilla.
What Mike said. I simply moved my optical drive to the lower bay, and then used it as a shelf for my Samsung 840EVO. The Samsung is light enough that I used a couple strips of velcro tape to hold it down. Short of me picking up the MacPro and giving it a really good shaking, it's not going to come loose.mikehalloran wrote:If you think it might get bumped or will need to move it, Velcro with the sticky tape backing work great. A couple or three squares is all you need.dix wrote:Okay. I'm answering my own stupid question in case anyone else needs to know.
So according to the internet there is hardware you can buy to secure the SSD in the optical bay, but since there's no moving parts in a SSD it's safe to just set it in the optical bay. And yes (duh), you can specify in the Startup Disk Preference where the Mac should look for the boot drive.
I am intrigued by the idea of using a Fusion Drive in situations where budget is an issue. I am running a Fusion Drive (SSD and HD joined into one Fusion Drive, as supported under ML and later OSX) on my laptop and it seems to be working nicely. However, my studio Mac is all SSD already, so no need there.dix wrote:My next question is which drive should I move to SSD next, my project drive or my VI sample drives?
That's where I'm trying to get to. Do you use VIs HC? Any thoughts re my Multiple FW drives vs One SSD question?However, my studio Mac is all SSD already, so no need there.
I guess I misunderstood… if you can fit all your VI sample data on a single SSD, it will still probably be faster than several FW-connected spinners, especially if connected via SATA3. That said, SSDs excel at random access, because access time is so much faster. I haven't researched whether streaming rate or access speed is the limiting factor in VI use.dix wrote:That's where I'm trying to get to. Do you use VIs HC? Any thoughts re my Multiple FW drives vs One SSD question?However, my studio Mac is all SSD already, so no need there.