On Sep 4, 2010, at 2:35 PM, RvR wrote: > 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?
No. If you were going to connect more than four HDs you would need another controller to have enough sata ports to plug them in. > 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? > I don't know about that. Brian probably does. > We cannot call eachother, I am in Europe;-) I can call Europe for just a little bit more than I can call here in the states. My in laws live in Belgium and I provide them with sip services for calling Europe and the US so I shopped around for very good rates. > Thanks for your feedback! Sure! Take care --FC
