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Apr 21, 2013 1:05 PM in response to The hatterby jcmurphy1971,What's the deal with these Seagate Momentus drives? The 750g drive is $125. How is this compared to a regular 750g SSD?
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Apr 21, 2013 1:14 PM in response to jcmurphy1971by The hatter,They are not regular anything.
They are for notebooks, 2.5" and they have tiny tiny SSD "hyrid" used as fast cache that "intelligently" (not sure I believe it) stores the most used files in SSD. Similar to Apple Fusion drives.
Looking for a whiz bang. Stick to tried and true. Want SSD? get a Samsung 840 or 840 Pro. Want an enterprise drive? 5-yr warranted 7.2K you know where those are.
NAS RED are another in the lineup along with Black.
And there is the $220 1TB WD VelociRaptor, 10K. Another class of drives.
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Apr 21, 2013 2:51 PM in response to jcmurphy1971by BitterCreek,jcmurphy1971 wrote:
What's the deal with these Seagate Momentus drives? The 750g drive is $125. How is this compared to a regular 750g SSD?
They are antiques, it uses a small SSD cache to temporarily boost write speeds. A true 750GB SSD will cost well over $1000.
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Mar 11, 2015 1:03 AM in response to The hatterby twistiejoe,Hatter can you please help me out.
I am so confused with SO much conflicting information going on.
Earlier you helped me to upgrade my 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 to 32GB of RAM, which I did, and it's all working.
My hardware specs say: 2.66GHZ, 2 processors, 4 cores, and 32GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM which I bought under your recommendation.
My OS is 10.6.8
I bought all of this ram to USE it but the main program I'm using (Vienna Ensemble Pro) is running our of memory EXTREMELY quickly.
Then I look at how much ram is being used in Activity Monitor when I've maxed out the ram that program, and it's barely using a quarter of my RAM - I have 25.26GB RAM free!!!
gSo then I read about needing to run in 64 bit Kernel, probably to use all the RAM - is this correct???
And I also read that I can't run a Mac Pro 1,1 in 64bit? - is that correct???So is this RAM just NEVER going to be used by this computer?
What are my options???
Please help me out here!
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Mar 11, 2015 1:18 AM in response to twistiejoeby lllaass,That is correct, the MacPro 1.1 and 1.2 (2006 and 2007) is limited to 32 bit since the EFI is only 32 bit. There is a hack to run Mountain Lion and above on a 1.1 and 1.2 to get 64 bit
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Mar 11, 2015 1:51 AM in response to lllaassby twistiejoe,Many thanks lllaass
This is a little bit above my expertise ... I'm not quite sure how I install it ... is it saying I need to update to Mountain Lion? I'm not sure if I really wanna to do that either tho ...
I might give it a go tho, updating,
But might there be any other options?
If I can't get it updated, is there a way or place you know to get money for old computers? I might end up buying a newer tower and just using Migration Assistant or something ...
I hope I can use my old ram in a new machine too?
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Mar 11, 2015 2:10 AM in response to twistiejoeby lllaass,There is eBay and Craig's list.
Yesterday I just picked up a 2009 Mac Pro. You really want a 2009 or later.
You can always try the hack on blank HD so you do not risk erasing your data.
I am told that now the instructions are relatively to follow so I would give it a try.