Sunday, November 21, 2010

Apricorn's Mac Array puts 512GB of RAIDed SSD into a single Mac Pro PCIe slot

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[/img]So, the whole wide world knows that the inside of your Mac Pro
is fairly lust-worthy, but what's the use if you never crack open the
side and install anything new? Apricorn -- a small, albeit respected
name in storage -- has just concocted what may be the best reason yet
to do precisely that. The outfit's new Mac Array is pretty
straightforward: you'll get a foursome of 128GB MLC Western Digital
SiliconEdge Blue SSDs strung together in a RAID 0 configuration, all
on a single full-length PCIe X4 slot. That's 512GB of pure,
unadulterated SSD power connected directly to the motherboard, and
considering that it only takes up a single slot, there's nothing but a
shortage of funds keeping you from adding a couple more and grinning
over a 1.5TB SSD solution. A single Mac Array promises read rates of
760MB/sec and write rates of 524MB/sec, and if you double up, you'll
see those surge to 1408MB/sec and 1027MB/sec, respectively. It's
available now to make your every dream come true -- yeah, even that
one about you dropping $1,499 on a new storage setup for your Apple
desktop.

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