I bought a 4TB Sandisk SSD and it delivers a nice 970GB/s that Iām happy with. Only about 20% as fast as the internal 5500GBs 1TB drive, but Iām happy with that given the expense of the internal. We have a Pegasus 6drive RAID on out 2013MacPro and itās really nice that this little drive outperforms that by a good percentage and makes for great fast file storage. As a side issue we now have the MacStudioUltra on order to replace this olde MacPro and I think weāre going to have to carry on using the Pegasus until I can convince them to splash out on newer storage and then it will perhaps need to be SSD.
yeaā¦
i am going to make a big splash and get a OWC 32TB ThunderBlade Ultra gen2 its so fastā¦and i should be super minimalistā¦and easy to travel.
plus the mac pro 16inch monitor is amazing.
Wowza, that looks reassuringly expensive but reassuringly expansive!
Yeah, Iāve gone from hell to heaven with this iteration of the MacBookPro. Without this big sea change I was, for sure, going to leave MacLaptopLand. I felt like taking part in a motherFāin class action against Apple with the 2017 MBP:
Overheating; short battery life; big green vertical line down the middle of the screen; two USB-C ports stopping working; keys flaking off; two keys falling off all the time and just a general feel of crappy quality. Felt really cheap and yet conningly-expensive and thus real joke job, like someone doing a knock-off of Appleā¦Steve Jobs might be spinning in his grave with the pathetically-poor āquality controlāā¦
ā¦Then comes along this piece of heaven. Built like a tank, keys feel solid and canāt imagine them falling out, workstation quality speed, beautiful display, beautiful sound. Still not bored with this machine and just oozes quality everytime I use it.
So, the 2017 felt like they were sleepwalking and laughing it into the grave, but there seems to be a wide-open horizon and future with this. Love the thickness and sheer safety of it. Mercedes of laptops.
Cheers
Tony
PS, but in saying that I still have a lot of simmering anger at Apple in deep storage that is waiting for another vendor to come along one day to move across to. I dream of a new Amiga. Well, not quite, Iām not cult member. But anyways the left field decisions, these sudden swerves and the crazy costs in those stands and strange decisions on monitors (that new accompaniment to the StudioMac looks awful in comparison to this 16-inch display of beauty. Practically calling buyers idiots in providing these cost-quality is not good for the background processing that we all do in building world pictures in the x-ray structure of our mindsets. Forgive the poetic outroā¦
Out of interest whatās the thinking regarding raid in these days of SSD? Iām on the cusp of upgrading and have been told that raid 10 is the way to go, of course this drops the usability of storage by 50%
I do agree that raid 10 is the raid to go with, (on the basis that the data is backed up elsewhere regardlessā¦(raid is not equivalent to an off-system backup)), butā¦
I would only use raid if the space or performance needed requires more than one drive. Itās obvious i guess but, drives are getting pretty big and fast these days, a lot can be done with a single ssd.
I think the way to go for mac systems is a hard drive based raid 5 for all of the footage and delivered comps, and a small SSD raid 0 that is only a cache and for renders. I do a nightly Carbon Copy Clone of the entire SSD raid 0 to the disk based raid 5. So far I havenāt lost a thing. If the raid 0 goes tits-up in the middle of the day, you can always reformat any working drives, and restore the clone from the night before.
i use one drive for media, another for work (IE stone) at raid 0 (for performance), i use cloud for my clip and library saves, and another cloud for my project folder. i call it the constitution of redundancy. Everything is separated and able to rebuilt at a moments notice.
Looks good. I would like to find something similar but for regular ssdĀ“s I got 8 x 8tb sata ssdĀ“s in a 8 bay stardom tb3 raid and the throughput is only about 1500MB/s read write in raid5. Donāt know much about raids and such but seams lika the raid enclosure is limited / I donāt get more speed than I would get with 8 good spinners, or am I wrong?
With all my SSD and nvme drives I donāt use raid 5. Just 0 or whatever it is that just stripes them together super fast. Never gone wrong yet. Fingers crossed.
It looks good, maybe good if you work on massive longform projects, but I just use theseā¦
Its only 2TB, but they are super fast and fit in your pocket, just need to buy a new one when it gets full!
I dont ever cache anything you can play 4k clips easy from it, smooth as.
The raid thing ? Or the tilda thing? Tilda Iām going back to Uk keyboards. Ssds I donāt bother with raids. Just stripe them all together. Faster and more space.