02-08-2013, 09:37 PM
kj4btkljv wrote:
[quote=davemchine]
I do a lot of video encoding so I need raw horsepower. I often have multiple apps trying to write to drives at the same time so I need a lot of throughput.
You're not going to get "a lot" of throughput on any MacPro, since they have only have SATA rev. 2 ports on the drive connectors, which is a max of 300MB/s.
However, having said that, 300MB/s is still fast. You can get top speed if you use SSD drives with everything you do, but that's getting crazy expensive.
Jeff
Or for $43 one can purchase eSATA card from our sponsor and plug it into PCI slot to achieve the higher 600MBs (theoretical). http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20T...PCIE6G2S2/ That was my solution, again hard to beat the expandability of the old reliable towers. Not to mention the superior cooling offered in the MacPro design. Comparison shows the iMacs just run hotter than the towers and while they assure us it is all OK, I have seen a lot more failures in the field with iMacs than with MacPros.