As you may have heard, Apple recently showed off their upcoming Mac Pro. They are targeting creative professionals with this new machine. One big problem with the new Mac Pro is the limited 4TB SSD option. Do you know what is not a problem?:
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To start off, we know that creators could use a NAS to have more storage space available. And that is good and all, but some creators may not what to have a separate NAS.
Now our first thought was you could just add a DAS, but that also defeats that purpose. We want to see a single device with as much storage as possible. So we started taking a look as to what expandability you may have internally. We found that you actually have two SATA ports one the Apple I/O card. Now keep in mind that we do not seem to have any SATA power cables visible, but assuming there are, those two ports would allow for 24TB of hard drive space alone. This would give you space for many Final Cut Pro X projects, but remember that Final Cut projects can take hundreds of gigabytes each for a 5-10 video. Also remember that if you want to export in 8 or 10-bit uncompressed your short video could be nearing a terabyte.
So is there another way to upgrade? Yes, but it was announced by Apple at WWDC. Instead it is found on the Mac Pro website when looking at Kits and Accessories. Under Storage it shows a Promise Pegasus R4i 32TB RAID MPX Module Kit.
This brings our total to 60TB so far with SATA and Apple SSDs. Is there any more, well, yes. We could assume that the device could handle two of the Pegasus R4is bringing us to 92TB, but I think we could do better.
Instead of these storage devices why not 7 PCIe SSDs?, leaving the bottom PCIe slot for a dual slot AMD Radeon Card. Well with Samsung’s PM1725b with 12.8TB each, that 89.6 TB of storage on top of the 4TB Apple SSDs. Brining us a total of 93.6 TB of SSDs, not spinning disks at all. This is an amazing amount of storage to have, preventing the need for NAS or DAS for a long time, especially you delete project libraries after exporting a Digital Master Copy.
Do you think the Mac Pro will be worth the price when it is available to purchase? Let us know in the comments below. If you want to help us get our hands on with the new Mac Pro be sure to support us on Patreon and consider changing your Amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate link. Also be sure to like and subscribe it helps us out a lot!
Now our first thought was you could just add a DAS, but that also defeats that purpose. We want to see a single device with as much storage as possible. So we started taking a look as to what expandability you may have internally. We found that you actually have two SATA ports one the Apple I/O card. Now keep in mind that we do not seem to have any SATA power cables visible, but assuming there are, those two ports would allow for 24TB of hard drive space alone. This would give you space for many Final Cut Pro X projects, but remember that Final Cut projects can take hundreds of gigabytes each for a 5-10 video. Also remember that if you want to export in 8 or 10-bit uncompressed your short video could be nearing a terabyte.
So is there another way to upgrade? Yes, but it was announced by Apple at WWDC. Instead it is found on the Mac Pro website when looking at Kits and Accessories. Under Storage it shows a Promise Pegasus R4i 32TB RAID MPX Module Kit.
This brings our total to 60TB so far with SATA and Apple SSDs. Is there any more, well, yes. We could assume that the device could handle two of the Pegasus R4is bringing us to 92TB, but I think we could do better.
Instead of these storage devices why not 7 PCIe SSDs?, leaving the bottom PCIe slot for a dual slot AMD Radeon Card. Well with Samsung’s PM1725b with 12.8TB each, that 89.6 TB of storage on top of the 4TB Apple SSDs. Brining us a total of 93.6 TB of SSDs, not spinning disks at all. This is an amazing amount of storage to have, preventing the need for NAS or DAS for a long time, especially you delete project libraries after exporting a Digital Master Copy.
Do you think the Mac Pro will be worth the price when it is available to purchase? Let us know in the comments below. If you want to help us get our hands on with the new Mac Pro be sure to support us on Patreon and consider changing your Amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate link. Also be sure to like and subscribe it helps us out a lot!