The 64-bit Mac Pro includes two Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors giving you 8 processor cores.
This dual-processor Mac Pro supports up to 64GB of DDR2 667MHz memory in eight slots. Choose more memory to improve overall system performance.
Your Mac Pro includes four drive bays, allowing you to configure it with up to 16TB of storage using 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s drives, up to 2TB of storage using high-performance solid-state drives (SSD), or any combination of each type of drive. Configure each drive bay separately.
Upgrading your boot drive from a hard drive to a solid-state drive will generate up to 3x faster boot time, 5x faster import/open/saving of large files, and 5x faster application start-up.
All hard drives and solid-state drives are new.
Note regarding solid-state drives: The drive bays on the Mac Pro are SATA2 (3GB/s), which allow a maximum performance of 250MB/s for solid-state drives. However, we stock the new SATA3 (6GB/s) solid-state drives which are capable of 500MB/s. To achieve the full potential of our Samsung SATA3 solid-state drives, we can install them on a PCIe slot which allow the drives to perform at their full speed. We recommend the PCIe SSDs (configuration options below) for the boot drive.
Professionals typically have a PCIe SSD as the boot drive (for the operating system and applications) plus one or two more SSDs/HDs (for data storage).
We can setup RAID arrays with two or four identical drives.
This Mac Pro includes four drive bays, allowing you to configure it with up to 8 terabytes of storage using 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s drives, up to 2 terabytes of storage using high-performance solid-state drives, or any combination of each type of drive. Configure each drive bay separately.
Apple produced the Mac Pro with a SATA II (3GB/s) onboard drive bay controller. New SSDs are SATA III (6GB/s). Upgrading your SSD(s) from the onboard SATA II controller to a PCI-Express based SATA III controller will allow the SSD to perform at full speed; achieving up to double the speed.
SATA II SSD's (Drive Bay) offer a max theoretical transfer rate of: read 285Mbps, write 275Mbps. SATA III SSD's (PCIe) offer a max theoretical transfer rate of: read 550Mbps, write 520Mbps.
The new 'cylinder' Mac Pros use the newest technology flash storage drives. Via a proprietary and revolutionary system, we install the super fast flash storage drives in the tower Mac Pro. These drives achieve 900MB/s as a single drive and 1000-2000MB/s in striped-RAID configuration.
Since these drives will be installed on a PCI-Express slot, the 4 drive bays will be free. Thus, allowing the SSD/flash boot drive plus 4x hard drives. Additional hard drives and SSDs can be installed in the optical bay upon request.
Configure your Mac Pro with PCI Express graphics cards. Configure your Mac Pro with two cards to power up to six displays simultaneously for visualization projects and large display walls or choose one high-performance card for video editing and rendering.
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Your Mac Pro comes standard with one 18x double-layer SuperDrive that burns and plays both CDs and DVDs.
The Mac Pro comes standard with five USB 2.0 ports, two Firewire 400 ports, two Firewire 800 ports, and two Gigabit Ethernet ports.
Enhance your Mac Pro with USB 3.0 (5GB/s), USB-C (10GB/s), and/or eSATA connections for external storage.
If you would like more than one of the options, please contact us for a cutsom quote.
This eSATA PCIe card has a total transfer rate of 6GB/s (600MB/s). Thus, if you connect 1x eSATA device, the device will perform at the full speed of 6GB/s. If you connect 2x eSATA devices, each device will perform at 3GB/s. If you would like a card with each port having a dedicated controller (having more than 1 device perform at full speed [6GB/s]), please contact us for other options. This card does support multi-drive enclosures.
The maximum speed of USB-C (USB 3.1) is 10GB/s. This card has two USB 3.1 ports on one controller. If one device is used, it will perform at the full 10GB/s. If two devices are used at once, it will divide the speed between the two devices - each transferring at up to 5GB/s.
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The maximum speed of USB 3.0 is 5GB/s. This card has four USB 3.0 ports on one controller. If one device is used, it will perform at the full 5GB/s. If two devices are used at once, it will divide the speed between the two devices - each transferring at up to 2.5GB/s. If four devices are being utilized at once, each port will max at 1.25GB/s.
Configure your Mac Pro with an AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi card using 802.11n technology to connect to wireless networks.
Choose the operating system that best fits your software requirements.
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