SAS keyboard shortcuts are very handy for efficient and speed code writing. Every SAS analyst must know every SAS keyboard shortcuts that are used in Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. SAS Keyboard shortcuts in SAS Studio Workspace. Description SAS keyboard shortcut for Microsoft Windows SAS keyboard Shortcut for Mac OS X Zoom in. Ctrl + plus sign Cmd + plus sign Zoom out. Ctrl + minus sign Cmd + minus sign To reset Zoom state Ctrl + 0 Cmd + 0 Maximize the view of the currently displayed tab or exit the maximised view. Alt + F11 Fn + Shift + F11 Open pop-up menu in the navigation pane Select item and press Shift + F10 Select item and press Fn + Shift + F10 New SAS program Ctrl + S Cmd + S Run Code F3 Fn + F3 Reset SAS sessiom F9 Fn + F9 Download Log, result as HTML Ctrl + S Cmd + S Print SAS program Ctrl + P Cmd + P Close tab Alt + 3 Option + 3 Move the focus to Server Files & Folders section label.

Alt + 1 Option + 1 Move the focus to the label of the currently displayed secondary tab Alt + 2 Option + 2 Move the focus to the label of the currently displayed primary tab and then navigate among all open tabs in the work area. Alt + 3 Option + 3 Move the focus to the body of the Code tab on the currently displayed primary tab. Alt + 4 Option + 4 Move the focus to the selected item in the Log tab on the currently displayed primary tab. Alt + 5 Option + 5 SAS Keyboard Shortcuts for the code editor Description SAS Keyboard shortcut for Windows SAS Keyboard Shortcut.

Friday, October 14th, 2011 Author: Most of the time, your average xpc has a longer useful life than its PC counterpart. Unfortunately, the fast evolution of technology means that, after a while, that older Mac may seem a little slow and may not be able to take full advantage of current tech. Such is the case for earlier Mac Pros. As they currently sit, they only move data at SATA 2.0 speeds, roughly three gigabits per second. If you wish to put the drives in to a RAID array, you are limited to either a mirrored RAID 1, losing half your capacity, or a RAID 0, which is faster, but increases the risk of data loss. On top of that, those RAID levels are all software-based, which can reduce overall performance. Fortunately, if you happen to have a 2006-2008 Mac Pro, you can improve the performance in those bays, with only one small thing to lookout for.

How does it work? The backplane (where the drives in the bays are connected) consists of four pass-thru SATA connections which are, in turn, connected to the SATA controller on the logic board (located near the front of the Mac Pro) via a mini-SAS connector. The great thing is that mini-SAS is a fairly common connector for PCIe SATA controller cards. The trick is to find one with that mini-SAS connector on the inside. This fits the bill. Not only does it feature six internal mini-SAS ports, it also has a built-in (hardware) RAID controller which supports RAID Level 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50 along with individual drive support and disk spanning, as well as an external port for more expansion options.

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves; let’s concentrate on upgrading those drive bays. What’s involved in the process? Once you install the Highpoint card in your Mac, you’ll notice that the mini-SAS cable that connects to the logic board is located near the front of the Mac Pro and the internal port on the card is located near the rear – much too far away from each other to connect. This is easily remedied, however, by using to bridge the distance. Once connected, the four drive bays in the Mac Pro are now being controlled by the RAID card, making it capable of both high-speed data transfer and more advanced RAID options.

At this point, we run into a bit of a problem; the Highpoint card isn’t bootable in a Mac. You will need to put your OS on a drive installed in one of the optical bays. For the best performance, we suggest getting an and attaching it via one of the “extra” SATA 2.0 connectors on the logic board, located near the front of the Mac Pro. Just run a SATA cable from the drive to this connector on the logic board (you’ll probably have to remove the fan to do this) and use to adapt the power from the drive bay for your SATA drive.

If you don’t want to go the SSD route, you also have the option of hooking up much the same way. You can install the system on this “fifth” drive, and use your upgraded hard drive bays to set up a RAID array for maximum data transfer. There’s only one situation where this won’t work: if you happen to use Boot Camp to run Windows on your Mac. Apple doesn’t support Boot Camp on these “extra” connectors. In that instance, you’ll need to use hooked to the ATA connector in the drive bay. You’ll lose a lot of the speed advantage during booting and launching when you do it this way, but at least you still retain Boot Camp capability. Whichever drive type and size you choose to put your OS on, that include all the mounts and cables necessary to make installing it into the drive bay a simple process.

Is it worth it? With all the effort you need to put into this sort of setup, you almost begin to wonder whether or not the speed boost is worth it. The key benefit is in the ability to read/write large amounts of data. If you’re accessing a lot of information (like audio or video editing or possibly a local file server for a small company) this could be just what you’re looking for. We set up an Early 2008 Mac Pro (MacPro3,1) with four and booted from a standard SATA drive installed in the optical bay.

To test the built-in card, we set all 4 drives up as a RAID 0 array using Disk Utility, then tested it using a series of benchmarking utilities (including ones from Intech, BlackMagic and Aja) running off the boot drive. As you can see, we more than doubled the card’s output with transfer rates topping out around 1600MB/s. Obviously, if your workflow includes heavy-duty data transfer, this setup will work nicely. Are there other benefits? Though it’s a key component in getting the most out of your drives, RAID functionality this isn’t the only benefit to this kind of setup. If putting your drives in a RAID isn’t necessarily your “thing,” you’ll still benefit that the card converts the bays from 3.0Gb/s SATA 2.0 performance to the 6Gb/s performance of SATA 3.0, allowing you to take advantages in speed. This card also adds SAS functionality, so you can now use SAS drives in the internal bays, which is a boon for more advanced users.

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In addition to the internal upgrade, the Highpoint card also has an external mini-SAS port, which can be used with external storage systems utilizing mini-SAS, such as the, giving you even more high-speed storage. The Bottom Line If you have a 2006-2008 Mac Pro that you need to move a lot of data through, upgrading the built-in SATA ports with the Highpoint card may just be the performance boost your machine needs. In case you didn’t pick them out of the article, here’s a brief shopping list of what you’ll need. Controller Card:. Connection:. Boot drive for optical bay (depending on needs). Maximum Speed:.

More storage on boot drive:. Boot Camp users:. Mounting Kits for optical bay.

I need help and not sure where to go for it. I purchased a new wifi card for my Mac Pro 5,1 12 core 3.33 that came with a Bluetooth 4.0 module but it requires a five pin connection for something but the user manual is in Asian I’m not sure which but exspect Chinese I ask if they had a English version but was told no. I got it off eBay I can give you more specific info if your willing to assist. I’m already adding a GeForce gtx680 4gb plus a USB 3.0 I’ve got a dual ssd pci card with dual esata ports and two wd 1tb ssd drives enroute to fill out the pci ports it has 4 2tb wd hdd and a DVD drive I’m going to add a blurry drive also to the internal optical bay that perty much should fill out the need to add stuff anytime soon. From experience, Highpoint’s support and customer service are terrible. At least it was up to about 3 years ago, which still isn’t long enough for our satisfaction.

We even had one of their major, authorized resellers get involved with a support issue regarding several of their “high-end” RAID cards and that reseller’s General Mgr became frustrated (actually, he became outright angry). Since we purchased quite a lot from this vendor, the GM exchanged the device for another card, while he continued to fight with these people. At one point, we were almost tempted to drive 380 miles up the road and knock on their door just to show we were serious. The fact that their extremely poor Chinese-“English” might’ve been a factor had nothing to do with their lack of response, their rude and discourteous responses when we COULD get them to reply. Since that time, we have avoided Highpoint at any cost.

It just isn’t worth risking a productivity bottleneck and fighting with those people should something go wrong again. We suggest that prospective buyers first reach out to these people asking them simply what their procedures are for submitting an RMA (including all steps, time frames, etc).

If they take longer than what is standard in the industry to respond (within 3 business days) or don’t respond at all, the solution should be obvious. Newer Technology on the other hand, was the exact opposite, for pre-sales feedback as well as after-sales support. Customer service and support has been excellent. OWC you should really review your vendor relationships again. Dear NCarrion, I successfully used the the Newer Technology MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G-1e1i controller to upgrade my Late 2010 Mac Pro (MacPro5,1). Because the motherboard connection to the 4 internal drive bays are different, you need to use different cables/mounts from the mini-SAS controller to your internal drives.

Also, take note about the fact that you cannot boot from drives connected to this controller. I removed both DVD/BD burners and hooked up an SSD and an internal drive to these two ports so I can boot on the SSD, have a backup system and user files on the internal drive, and use all four drives connected to the mini-SAS controller as a RAID 0 drive array. If you need details about my set up, let me know. I’ll have to go back and see exactly what I bought in addition to the mini-SAS controller. Dear Russ, Okay, here are the details of what I purchased in order to install the NewerTech MaxPower RAID Mini-SAS 6G 1e1i card into a Late 2010 Mac Pro (MacPro5,1). I did this in the summer of 2014 and there may be better solutions available now. I also did most of my shopping at OWC (www.macsales.com) and only had to shop at another store because I could find an what I needed at OWC for connecting a Mini-SAS card to four 3.5” drives in the internal drive bay.

All of the things I purchased are still available and I’ve included the links to them. Mini-SAS Card: Obviously, you will need the MAXPower card. There are probably other (better) choices available, but this is the one OWC promotes.

NewerTech MAXPower RAID Mini-SAS 6G 1e1i: One external port/one internal port Mini-SAS 6Gb/s PCIe 2.0 RAID controller card. 3.5” Drive Backplane Trays: Because there is no connector on the motherboard that goes directly to the SATA connectors on the motherboard/backplane so you can use the original trays (as was the case with earlier models of the Mac Pro), you need to get special trays that will let you attach SATA connectors from the MAXPower card to the drives. The one I found is sold by MaxUpgrades (www.maxupgrades.com). These trays have an adapter that still gets power from the SATA connectors on the backplane, but mount the drive far enough away from the backplane so that there is enough room to attach a 90° SATA connector to the drive. The product comes with 4 trays and a fanout cable (or breakout cable) with a MiniSAS connector on one end and 90° SATA connectors on the other four ends.

MaxConnect (4-Drives-MiniSAS Cabling) BackPlane RAID Attachment for Mac Pro 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 Model ID: 4,1 & 5,1 Models 3.5” to 5.25” Adapter: In order to be able to boot up on an internal hard drive (you cannot directly boot up from any drive connected to the MAXPower card), you will need to have your boot drive use one of the SATA connectors for the DVD drive (i.e. One of the 5.25” drive bays). Again, there are many out there, but I bought the OWC one. OWC Multi-Mount: 3.5″ to 5.25″ Hard Drive adapter bracket set. Install any 3.5″ hard drive into a 5.25″ drive bay. 1 Year OWC Limited Warranty.

2.5” to 3.5” Adapter: Since I wanted to be able to boot off an SSD drive (but still also boot off of a regular 3.5” hard drive that has a backup of my boot drive on an HD drive using Carbon Copy Cloner, as well as another partition for user folders, i.e. I didn’t want user data to fill up my SSD drive), I needed this adapter so I can put a 2.5” drive into the 3.5” to 5.25” adapter above. The 3.5” to 5.25” adapter bracket set allows two 3.5” drives to be installed (though it takes up more space than a 5.25” drive) or a 3.5” drive and a 2.5” drive (within the same space as a 5.25” drive). OWC 2.5″ to 3.5″ Drive Adapter Bracket. Securely and easily install a 2.5″ form factor hard drive or SSD in a 3.5″ side mount drive bay.

(Optional) OWC Multi-Mount: I already had the 2.5” to 3.5” adapters, so that is why I chose the 3.5” to 5.25” adapter brackets. If you don’t have any adapters at this point, then you may want to consider the OWC Multi-Mount. I’m not sure what is the difference but they have a generic one and one that is specifically for the 2009/2010 Mac Pro. If I didn’t already have a 2.5” to 3.5” adapter, I would probably have bout the Multi-Mount. OWC Multi-Mount: 2.5 to 3.5 / 3.5 to 5.25 Hard Drive adapter bracket set for 2009/2010 Mac Pro.

Install one 3.5″ and/or one 2.5″ HDD or SSD in a single 5.25″ bay. I believe there is enough detail above so you can do what I did.

Thx for your answerI understand the HDD’s Limitation. Do you have any idea about my unmounting probs? Both the 2 Raids had some deconnection @ Carl Can you please precise your installation schedule? I did the following: 1-Initialiazed the HDDs with the Newertech webbrowser based software. 2-Made 2 Arrays of Raid 0 (2x1TB and 2x2TB) 3-Once done that, Mac OSX.8.5 told me the volume were unreadable. So I initialized them with Apple disk utility and then it seems OK.

But I had some unmounting issues when doing fast use of “big” data (video editing) and when connecting external HDD on esata via SAS to esta cable. Will the card will be compatible with OSX.9 Maverick? Hard to say without looking at your specific setup, and can’t speak for Maverick. I am using a Macpro 3.1 and Lion.

However, I am not using Newertech’s browser utility for initializing or raiding, just the driver. Stick to one or the other; I used Apple’s Disk Utility for both functions. Try that and see if it makes any difference. Also, check to see your connections aren’t coming loose.

Drives running at 5400 rpm’s and gobbling big chunks of data could be an issue. Experiment with SSDs for fast throughput on single files of your work, and use standard drives for storage. Ok, now I am confused. Can you please clarify. I am using this card in a Mac Pro 1.1 in slot 2 at x8 speed (via expansion utility, PCIe 1.0) and getting about 900 MB/s read and write with 4 ssds in RAID 0.

But I do not have the card connected directly to the motherboard. It doesn’t have to be connected directly to the motherboard to get the best performance does it? Also, if I connect 4 ssds internally and 4 ssds externally, one set for reading and one set for writing, will I be reducing the card’s performance with 8 drives? Thanks for your consideration.

I was glad to see the picture posted above depicting the cabling schematic. I am new to this, and so this all has been a tad difficult to picture. I purchased this controller, just wanted to make sure one thing concerning the routing of the internal SAS cable. Is it correct that I am plugging this in place of an exciting cable on the logic board, which is NOT the Cale running to the back plate HDD connectors? This was almost confirmed from the picture, I just got lost when I saw ” maxconnect”.

Is this just implying where to plug in the SAS cable from the controller to the logic board or is the “maxconnect” something additional I need? I installed this mini-SAS puppy on my MacPro 1.1 which does not have any PCIe 2.0 slots as you know. Nevertheless, by connecting 4 SSDs in a RAID 0 configuration I managed to get 950 MB/s read, and 839 MB/s write speeds (w/HyperX 120GB disks).

Using 3 SSDs, Intel 520s/120GB in RAID 0: 820 MB/s read, and 782 write speeds. According to BlackMagic’s old speed tester, it’s somewhat sluggish for 12 Bit RGB 4:4:4: uncomp. Frames rates of 105 read, and 92 write per second (HDTV 1080). But, it’s plenty fast for my Apple ProRes 4444 files. Remember, however, to set the Expansion Slot Utility at 8x lanes.

Oddly, when I confined my Radeon 5770 to 8x as well, it seemed to boost the speed of the controller card a bit. I made this comment before about the Newer Technology MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G 1e1i.

I installed one in my Mac Pro 1.1 and it works just fine. Should work on the MP 5.0. The card comes with two mini SAS connectors: one internal and one external.

You do not have to connect it to the existing drive bays in the Mac Pro to it. I have used these Mac Pro’s internal bays to install 4 additional SSD drives and they run fast enough for most applications (including ProRes 4444). I used an internal mini SAS connector with a Sata fan out for 4 additional drives; and an external mini SAS with Sata fan out for 4 more SSDrives. The additional Sata connector below the fan assembly can take a boot drive. I removed the CD drive and found plenty of room there to stash additional drives. By removing the CD drive you will also have 2 additional Molex power connectors.

I power the external drives with an external power source. Hope this helps. I recently purchased this for my 2010 Mac Pro (MacPro5,1) because I saw that it was compatible with this computer. I was about ready to buy the mini-SAS Extender Cable but saw it was for the 2006-2008 Mac Pro so I didn’t purchase. I’m not sure why, but I thought maybe it was because the cable in the 2010 Mac Pro was long enough to reach the card.

But as I went to install it, I realized that I still needed some kind of cable. Coming back to this article and reading the other comments, I realized that the 2010 Mac Pro would need a special cable that you have not yet made back in February 2013. It is now July 2014. Has the necessary cable been made? Is it even possible if the SATA connectors are directly on the motherboard? If not, then I may have to just do what the reply from Carlo Tanne states and that is to simply give up trying to connect the internal drive bays to this card and just find other work arounds to use the internal SAS port.

Hi guys, Tonite I finished to install the Max Power in my 2008. Little hard to pull out the old cable and secure the new one, but at the end all worked. I writing because I tested RAID 0 with 4 6gbs transfer SAta 3 Drives, and the speed from the normal conection Esata, increased 50-60mbs, for a total of 600Mbs/s. Really not impresive. I was dreaming with a bigger number. Then I was curious about the RAID 5, and I testedbut problems came up.

I was running the AJA and Blackmagic test ( I ‘m a filmmaker) and they went fine in RAID 0 showing those 600gbs/s but, with the same test, every time I ran it, the computer crashed. In the begining of the Read stage.So what’s going on with raid 5, I changed between Write back and WTand was the same. Also I want to understand how other fellow has the same benchmark of 600 Mbs/s with Esata as he mentioned in this forum?

I though Max Power would give me more speed than the Esata.original configuration. My last reading before Power max instalation was 550Mbs. Software Raid from Disk Utility. The card is now in the 2nd Slot X16 as the manual ask, And I need this Slot for My second Graphic card (for Davinci Resolve to take advantage of the CUDA and GPU). So for this last one, How is going to decrease the performance if I move out to a X4 Slot? (little tire of pulling and changing out things tonite.) anyways beyond the concern, I’m optimistic on taking some tasks from the 2 CPUs to the MAx Thanks in advance. Ryan: You do not have to cross your fingers; put them to work instead:) I am quite content with the Mini SAS Raid Card I got for my Mac Pro 1.1.

All you have to do is get a mini-SAS internal connector cable split into 4 independent SATA connectors, for example. I connected this mini-SAS cable internally and ran the cable outside to connect 4 SSDs (in Raid 0) powered externally.

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Getting 800+ MB/s read and write on PCI 1.0 and basic Kingston ssds. Plenty fast for ProRes 4444. If you take the Apple DVD drive box out you’ll find plenty of room to drop the SSDrives inside, if you prefer. Good luck:) Carlo.

Hi guys from owc, I have a 2008 3,1, so here the questions: First: do you have some illustrated (photo) instructions on how to modify the mac and install the raid card with the sas cable? At least a picture where to locate the sas connection in the logic board and to put the cable?

I already put a SSD in the optical drive as a boot drive, so I need help with the Maxpower. Second: can I buy a Rack pro and use it with the external sas of the MaxPower card + the internal sas to build a RAID of 8 total drives?

Does it work? Third: some people says SSDS are not quite good for build a raid, due to the decreasing performance to handle video for long period of playback. And HDs still are best for this. Do you have knowledge on this matter? Fourth: is your raid card compatible with mountain lion? After your answer and help I will hit the button.

Best regards and thanks for this wonderful solution. I sent an email, asking for a comment about a situation in wich the RAID 5 configuration with the Power Max crashed the machine when I performed an Aja test as well a Blackmagic test Speed in the read stage. The machine crash every test I did. Can you tell something about this error? I worry to build a raid 5 an have a crashed in the middle of a client session.

My Computer: MAc pro 2008 3,1 2x 2.8 16gb ram Mountain lion 1.8.2 4 Hdd sata 3 6gbs builded a raid 0 and worked fine, the Raid 5 is the issue. I have placed an order for your MiniSata, Raid Card. 1i1e Thanks again for your review and test. I am looking forward to putting it to work in my MacPro 1.1. Don’t know if you might be able to help me with this question: I installed a couple of 4Gb Mushkin Simms (for a total of 8GB /pair) but my MP1.1 could only read them as 2 Gb ea. And sometime would ignore 1 or both of them.

I have SMC 1.7f10 and EFI 32-bit. I currently have 16 GB total. Any clues as to why my machine is not able to read the 4GB memory sticks? I understand although Mac supports only 16 GB max, some folks claim to have up to 32GB max. Thanks again, and happy holidays. Hi Chris, in October 2011 you said there was no solution for using this in a MacPro 4,1 (early 2009) yet.

In Dec 2012 you said: “However, for sake of measurement, we also tried it in a MacPro5,1 and got read speeds of 1287.506 MB/s and write speeds of 1551.706 MB/s, so Mac model (and, most likely underlying bus speeds) will also play into it.” Have you guys found a way to install the internal/external mini-SAS RAID card – MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G-1e1i – in the MacPro 4,1 (early 2009)? Or is there any other PCIe card that can at least upgrade my internal SATA ports to SATA 3.0, 6Gb/s?

I really want to use something to upgrade the internal drive controllers of my workstation. Ideally the MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G-1e1i as I can also use external mini-SAS to share external RAID drives between my retina MacBookPro and my MacPro via external PCIe Thunderbolt enclosure connected to my laptop. I installed the NewerTech Sata III 6G mini-SAS 6G in my MacPro 1.1 and am quite happy with it.

I am getting write/read speeds of 800 MB/s; which is plenty good for ProRes4444. And that’s with slow Patriot 120GB ssds. I have 4 drives in Raid 0.

I’ll expect better speeds once I get the SATA III 500Mb/s drives. I didn’t bother connecting it to the existing internal bays using OWC’s extender cable. It’s really not necessary (plus the cable is pricey). I also keep 4 ssds in the internal slots. The 1e1i has 2 connectors. I used the internal connector with a mini SAS to SATA fan out x4. I decided to take out the DVD player and found plenty of room in there to nest 8 ssds; plus you have the two Molex connectors in there which connected to a couple of SATA/Molex adapters with 2 plugs each, you can power all 4 ssds.

I powered another 4 regular drives externally to a second SATA II Raid controller. You can also run a SATA power cable from an external power supply into the MacPro.

Once I find an external mini SAS to SATA x4 fan out cable (6G rated) I can potentially have 8 ssds running on this card. Hope this helps. While the card itself could certainly handle it, the issue with the 2009-2010 units is getting the correct cabling. In the 2006-2008 models the drive connections are separated and we do have the to complete that connection.

In the 2009-2010 models Apple moved to an integrated backplane and we currently do not carry the correct cabling to connect the hard drive bays to the card. We are still working on sourcing or creating a solution and if/when available we will announce it here on the OWC Blog first, but at this time we do not have any type of ETA. This topic is quite timely considering some thoughts Ive been having lately I have a MacPro 3.1 with the Dual Quad Core 2.8 GHZ processors. (I also have 16GB of RAM installed, which is Kingston, and 6 Western Digital SATA2 HDD’s in various sizes). I run ProTools 9 for audio recording, an Apogee Duet as the audio interface on the firewire buss and an application called BFD for programming drums, as well as numerous other native plugins for EQ, compression, reverb and the like.

Strangely I do find that the MacPro does struggle at times with what appears to be processor load (at least thats what the CPU meter in ProTools shows) when Im running even a fairly light session (say 8 audio tracks with a couple of plugins and an instance of BFD) and have been thinking lately that when the next MacPro comes out Ill bite the bullet and upgrade. However I was running into “similar” issues on my MacBookPro 4.1 (IntelCore2Duo 2.5 GHZ, 2GB RAM, aluminium body) with running multiple VMware virtual machines (in the realm of a Windows XP VM and Windows 7 VM simultaneously) where MacBookPro was becoming quite unresponsive, which all things considering in understandable. However I went the way of installing an OWC 240GB Sata2 SSD and 6GB of OWC RAM and since then the MacBookPro has been incredible. To the point where I can run 3 or 4 virtual machines as well as my usual OSX tasks and it doesnt seem to break a sweat. The reason for detailing this MacBookPro success makes me wonder if I install a series of OWC SSD’s (Sata2 or even Sata3 and the controller as described in this article) and maybe even swap out the 16GB of Kingston RAM to 16GB or 32GB of OWC RAM in the MacPro whether or not I might achieve a similar level of success and get a reasonable performance boost for my audio work This also ties in with me being a little skeptical of installing Lion on the MacPro at the moment due to performance. Sorry for it being a bit long winded. Unfortunately, this not the best place to try and spec out individual machines.

That said, adding more RAM and faster drives (esp. SSDs) do generally tend to improve performance. Whether it would be “enough”, I couldn’t tell you for sure, as I generally don’t deal on that end of the spectrum.

Fortunately, many of our sales staff interact with audio professionals on a daily basis and are quite familiar with the specific demands that various audio systems require, so a quick call to one of our phone reps should be able to help you make a decision. Yesterday I installed the OWC 480 gig Memory Extreme Pro SSD in my 2007 Mac Pro 2,1 dual quad core 3 GHz with 16 gigs RAM. I have 4 750 gig HD that were original with my machine, 2 are striped into a RAID. I installed the SSD in my second optical bay using OWC’s multi mount kit, cloned my boot-up drive and am using it as my bootup drive. According to my AJA speed test, the SSD runs a read/write of 250/237 for 1920×1080 8-bit, my original boot drive is 48/50, my second internal drive is 70/69, and the Raid is 80/90. AN external 4 TB harddrive connected through an eSata port is 157/182.

So the SSD helped and feels much faster. So I am looking at using the miniSAS controller card to see if it helps. BTW – the installation instructions that OWC provided were great!.

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