It's designed to allow you to keep working in the event of a drive failure. First, it's all about business continuity. I believe that RAID5 is not a good option for a number of reasons. 20-40x better at the kinds of storage tasks involved in most workflow. This is why HDs suck and SSDs rule at this kind of workload. (which is never advertised but more important for workflow related I/O).Ģ SSDs in RAID0 can probably offer 20MB/s in random I/OĤ HDs in RAID0 would offer only about 0.5-1MB/s in random I/O So for copying/moving large files, the SSDs are perhaps twice as fast. Archives stored offsite - this is a copy of #2 stored on USB3 externals that are stored at another locationĢ SSDs in RAID0 could do as high as 1GB/sĤ HDs in RAID0 could do as high as 600-700MB/sĤ HDs in RAID5 could probably do 400MB/s (just guessing) Archives stored onsite - for me these are past photo libraries that I rarely accessģ.
Time Machine of my SSD (active library) so if I accidentally screw something up, I can go back in timeĢ. Combine that with a couple of spinners in RAID0 or RAID1 (depending on your risk tolerance) for archival/backup and you should be golden.ĮDIT: Everyone has a different backup strategy, but here's what I do.ġ. A Thunderbay 4 with a couple of SSDs in RAID0 is probably your best bet. if you don't have enough capacity on your internal, then you will need something external. You absolutely want to be working off solid state for the random access performance. There's no solution that will get you external storage at 700+MB/s for less than that. It's 1GB/s and would have cost you an extra $500. Seriously though, that was not a wise option to forgo given your requirements here.
#BEST EXTERNAL STORAGE FOR MAC PRO FULL#
My boot drive on my old mac pro is on a 250 ssd and is almost completely full so I don't think the 500gb internal pcie ssd would be big enough to host project files, unless the system would get slimmed down by moving home folders and mail boxes externally?įirst of all, shame on you for not getting the 1GB internal SSD. Are there other raid options out there that would be more suitable / better / cheaper? This could either be setup as raid 0 with an additional backup connected or raid 5 for slower speeds but redundancy.
It seems extremely fast but quite pricy for the amount of storage?Īnother option is raid storage with hard drives or ssd's, for example one of Promise solutions or the OWC Thunderbay 4.
One of the options I looked at for the working drive is the Lacie little big disk thunderbolt 2. (After a project is finished it will be archived on a NAS)ī: Backup drive of the working drive above.Ĭ: Timemachine backup of Mac Pro's internal drive Primary use will be Photoshop (large files) with some video editing in FCP.Ī: A working drive for current project files, looking for read / write speeds in the 700's or higher.
#BEST EXTERNAL STORAGE FOR MAC PRO HOW TO#
I just got a Mac Pro 2013 6 core with the 500gb ssd and looking for advice how to best setup external storage for fast access and secure backup.
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