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I did some surfing and selected 3 Western Digital 320Gig disks from Maplin as these seemed to offer the best price/space ratio. This is not my main form of storage, I have an XserveRAID so maxing the thing out to its limits with expensive 750 Gig disks wasn't that attractive. So I placed an order online at about 3pm and was very surprised although deighted when DHL turned up at 10:30 the next morning. Now, how easy are these to install, there are 4 steps.
That's about as easy as it gets to add SATA disks to a MacPro.
Now, what really got my goat was the fact that a well known forum host was saying that he didn't recommend internal RAIDs. This is an existing machine feature by Apple, not a bodged disk stuffing exercise as previous third party products have been. Heat and noise so far have not ben a problem, in fact my G5 that is located 10 feet away drowns out the MP and that only has two disks in it. Every G5 owner will recognise that 747 takeoff noise every now and then, compare this to the almost silent MP. What I find amazing is that technolgy moves so fast. This type of storage is now available to everybody and can be bought on the High Street. It was only 4 years ago I bought a Medea raid for about £3,000. It had less storage than the disks I installed in 15 minutes.              Comments (5)
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written by Robert on October 19, 2007 Peter, did you already have Apple's hardware RAID card installed, or are you using RAID 0 or 1 (software raid)? I'm looking to add 1.5TB (3 500GB drives) and would like RAID 5. Thoughts? Thanks! Sorry for the delay Robert
written by Peter Wiggins on November 02, 2007 No, RAID card - it seems a lot of money No, RAID card?
written by Sergio on February 07, 2008 Hi Peter, I wanted to know if you could elaborate on your reply. Did you mean "No, I have a RAID card." or "No RAID card". I need to split hairs because I'm considering internal RAID, I don't have the budget for external RAID at the moment, and did not order my MacPro with the RAID card. How they holding up? RAID
written by Rachel on May 24, 2008 I will be adding a pair of 250Gb 7200.10's to my mac pro when it arrives in sw raid (I agree unless you need stupid performance for AV work then the RAID card is a LOT of money). x fingers peeps Editor
written by Robert Mayer on October 15, 2009 I have a Mac Pro dual quad core 3GHz xeon with 4 gigs ram and 3 750gig hard drives that I was thinking of doing a raid 0 with... Or I was going to purchase a G-RAID 2 terabyte eSATA drive along with the PCIe eSATA card Reader... I edit small surfing flicks and want some speed now that im shooting 720p. Recommendations? Does the software raid do a pretty good job? Write comment
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Well, the time had come to put some new storage on my MacPro, I thought I'd wait until after NAB until purchasing a fibre channel card with the new 4 port card and the rumours of 
The MacPro has 3 extra internal bays with carriages to accept disks. Here you can see disk 3 being inserted. Just out of sight on the left is disk 1, the original boot disk.
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