Mac Pro with RAID card avaliable

Interesting, they didn't add the option for 1TB drives like they have in the new imac.

four tb drives in 0+1...mmmm

$1000 bucks just to get started...yuck

Hope we can extract the firmware out of it and then import in another cheaper card.

Or are there any compatible RAID cards for osx 10.4.10?

It has 256MB of cache and an integrated 72-hour battery for protecting the RAID cache.

Is that a bit like this Gigabyte card?

Is that a bit like this Gigabyte card?

It is nothing at all like that. That card uses RAM as a "disk". This card is a Hard Drive controller with Cache.

Typical Apple upgrade price charge twice or more then what it's worth. It's like the 750GB hard drives Apple wants $599CAD I can buy it for $320CAD

I'm not sure that it's a full 100% mark-up on that. Yeah, some mark up but it has a 256MB cache and PC cards like that run close to $1000 retail. At least $650-$700 at the low end.

Mac pro's RAID card isn't a toy RAID like Sillicon Image's or RocketRAID's, it's more like this one, an it's an intel one. I place my bet that apple's is this one or one of it's cousins.

http://shop.intel.com/shop/product.asp?pid...86&pindex=1 with 72h battery and 256mb ~850$

RAID Cards is so much better them Intel ICH9R?

Any review?

"RAID" capable chipsets and cheap controllers are fake RAIDs. They aren't real hardware RAIDs, just a software RAID implemented in the BIOS of the controller.