Hai Frank, I won't be buying any additional mechanical drives from Apple, much too expensive like you said. The ssd ones are on the other hand equally priced as online retailers. Unfortunately for the Mac Pro's you can only choose an 512gb, which is a little too much for my taste. So the ssd's I will be buying later on. 128gb should be enough for each OS including programs and samples I think, but what is best to do: getting two 128gb ssd's or one 256gb and then split it? You say: "I forgot to mention that you can mount to ssd in each 3.5 bay but you'd have to add a sata controller for more ports."What do you mean by that? Do I need another sata controller when putting two ssd's in the Pro? And you wrote when sharing samples across os's, in which fileformat should the disk be? I am wondering if for example the virtual instrument Superior Drummer from Toontrack, which is hybrid for use with Windows and MacOSX, can share one library of samples? And or do I need two licenses for that?
We cannot call eachother, I am in Europe;-) Thanks for your feedback! Cheers, Ronald -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Frank Carmickle Verzonden: vrijdag 3 september 2010 22:16 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: Best hdds configuration running Win7 and OSX on Mac Pro Hi Ron On Sep 3, 2010, at 11:46 AM, RvR wrote: > Hi, > Finally decided to order a new Mac Pro this weekend. I am not sure how > to configure the harddisks though. Would like to hear what you guys think. Very cool! > Here is the situation: > Plan to run Windows 7 with Sonar, Sound Forge and the likes besides > the OSX stuff like Pro Tools and so forth. > After reading many old messages from Bryan Smart about ssd hdds I will > get some of those probably. When I do must I install Windows and OSX > each on seperate ssds? I know you can split a hd into two for both > OS's, but is this wise? Apple offers a 512gb ssd, but comes at an > hefty pricetag. Have no If it were me buying the machine I would buy it with the idea in mind that I would add the extra drives myself. Apple charges a lot for harddrives. I just went and looked. The quad core config is $150 for a second 1tb hard drive. That's twice as much as you can buy one for from any reasonable retailer. They charge $300 for a 2tb model, which is again twice as much as most other places. If you are comfortable installing hard disks then you can save youself quite a bit of money. A 128gb ssd goes for $300 -$350 US and 2tb 7200 drives go for $150 US. I would buy a 128gb ssd for my system disk and two 2tb drives for audio. I'd use the 1tb drive that Apple put in the mac pro to put finished projects. I'd probably find a way to compress my finished projects in to flacs or alacs. I'd still probably buy an external drive to backup the finished projects. > clear idea how big the seperate ssd's eventually should be. > Got some big sample libraries like Superior Drummer and Omnisphere > besides all the Sonar stuff. No clue how big the Pro Tools side of things will be. > And can I put the programs, samples and instruments all on that same ssd? > Cause I read somewhere the samples should be on another disk as well > as the audio does. You should be able to put the sample libraries on the same ssd as your OS. If you were plaing to share them across OS's then maybe you'd want to grab a second small ssd, like a 64gb. I forgot to mention that you can mount to ssd in each 3.5 bay but you'd have to add a sata controller for more ports. Oh and you could add a 5.25 hotswap drive cage in one of the front bays. This way you could swap in and out up to four 2.5 drives at a time. I don't mean to overwelme you with all the options but you should know all the possibilities. Hope this helps. I don't mind chatting with you about this on the phone if you'd like. Take care --FC
