Re: [MMUG] The New Mac Pro and external hard drives etc

[Ian Collier]

Well, Startech do a two bay thunderbolt enclosure that should take your Crucial SSD for a shade under £300. So for £100 less you’d have 500GB more storage, but I bet you the PCIe internal SSD Apple ships on board will be much, much faster than a SATA device in an external enclosure.

As for backups - I use Time Machine (at work and at home) and SuperDuper. Time Machine has pretty much always worked for me and it is brilliant for going back through history for files if you need to. But you probably should be looking at some online/off site backup as well.

Of course your backups do not have to be on SSDs.

Hope that is of some help.

—Ian

On 1 Jul 2014, at 14:34, Hannah Mackinlay <hann...@mac.com> wrote:

> I'm contemplating the inevitable of parting with my closest companion - my venerable 2008 MacPro 8 core (lol- sad isn't it that I spend more time with it than any human!) in the next month or two and replacing it with the new MacPro now that is seems Adobe CC will use the graphics cards in the new one (got an nvidia quadro graphics card in the old MacPro) but can't work out the best way to deal with the hard drive situation.
>
> In my existing MacPro I have an Crucial 1G SSD for about £350 in Bay 1 which has transformed it completely (and I would totally recommend it to anyone), but the cost of a 1G new Mac Pro is silly money so I would want get the 500G SSD version and to use my existing 1G SSD via thunderbolt 2 for media and stuff but can't easily find a way of doing it. I can't seem to find anything at ordinary money in the market place, they are all high end Raids or caddies for spinning drives with a TB1 or FW or USB
>
> In my existing MP I also have a 1.5TB in bay 2 as Time Machine and bay 3 is 1.5 for video media and bay 4 for a clone of bay 3 for back up , and this has to be thought about too as ideally I need a back up solution for the whole caboodle. I have never completely trusted TimeMachine and have always used carbon copy cloner to just make bay 4 a copy of bay 3 - am I being a late adopter or is my fear justified. Im just bothered by the fact that the Time Machine backup is not easily accessible in that you can't just see the actual files like you can on a cloned disk so i feel a little nervous about that. Also i have never had to restore from TM and don't know if it does actually work...??
>
> Ideally It seems that I would want an external TB2 caddy for the existing SSD and a big spinning disc HD as a single backup for both- partitioned perhaps for each drive, but i am open to suggestions.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks for your time if you have any. My mac pro has been awesome in the last 6 years of ownership and touch wood will continue to be but I feel I have to move on....fickle floozie that I am!
>
> Hannah
>
> --
> --
> MMUG is an  Apple User Group.
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "MMUG Chat" group. To post to the group, send email to mmug...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to mmug-chat-...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mmug-chat. Please note that what you post to the list is publicly readable by anyone and regularly indexed by search engines.
> ---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MMUG Chat" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mmug-chat+...@googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.