Solid State Drive Upgrade
Solid State Drive Upgrade
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- zombee0
Yep, did exactly this on a 2012 Mac Pro. Was a doddle. Went for a Samsung 830 250GB SSD for OS and Apps, and used a couple of standard HDDs for working files and backup.
Only thing to bear in mind is you won't get SATAIII (6GB transfer) speeds if your using the Mac Pro's HDD bays as they are only SATAII (3GB transfer), but his still yields way faster read/write speeds than a spinning hard drive. If you're going for this option, would recommend one of these: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/O…
If you want full transfer speeds and you have a spare PCI slot, you'll need one of these: http://www.sonnettech.com/produc…
Also grab a free app called 'Trim Enabler' which will help manage garbage collection on the SSD: http://www.cindori.org/software/…
- why would one need insane transfer speeds of 6GB/s when the hdd is only at 200MB/s read/write?mekk