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Hi,
I've recently purchased a 2008 Mac Pro and want to replace the hard disk in, to something larger and faster.
I also have a some 160GB SSDs as well.
So I was considering do the following:
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks
Fastest SSD is a blade SSD on a PCle car
SSD Blade Drive for "Classic" Mac Pro
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8006/samsung-ssd-xp941-review-the-pcie-era-is-here /9
What's a good solid-state drive for my Pro 1.1, c.250-500gb?
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/tuylaant/2014/01/upgrading-old-macs-to-ssds/
Googling shows that the seagate ST1000LM014 is hyprid 2 1/2 drive. That is OK but for large files that are randomlu used it is not really faster that a standard 3 1/2 rotating HD.
The SATA bus on all silver tower Mac Pros are only SATA II and that is another reason why the hybrid drive or even an SSD will not help that much. In addition to the blace PCle SSDs you can get a PCle card that can use 2 1/2 inch SSDs at therei SATA II speeds
HDD Upgrade for Mac Pro (3,1) Early 2008
