Need help on upgrading

[ajmaudio]

One other arrangement that is more $$$ but gives u more redundancy is to put 2 large normal sata disks in the machine with OS and content archive on them to have redundancy and then 2 SSD drives for redundancy. Once your show is programmed you can have it on both OS drives and point the catalyst software on each OS drive to a different SSD. Both would have the same content but this would offer about as much redundancy as you can get without having a second machine. If one OS or content drive bites it etc just reboot and bounce over to the other and go merrily on your way. Food for thought.... I guess I am paranoid

[SourceChild]

Just add an SSD.

Or Better yet, trade in your Mac Pro and get a new Mac Mini with an SSD.

If you are only running a few clips you don't need to haul around a big server.

I have Mac Mini Servers which run 3 layers of HD simultaneously on a single output and the whole system fits in a 2U rack chassis that I've custom built.

[MattMills]

Hello everyone. I have done the upgrade. I bought an 80 gig SSD and all is great. I have the OS on one of my old SATA drives, all my playback content on the SSD, and a backup of the playback content on another SATA drive. All has been great so far and I was very surprised by the boost in performance. Thanks again for all the help.

[RobbJibson]

Matt! The SSD are the way to go!
The Mac Pros that I have are SSD on the system volume and the content volume! No moving parts!
How ya been? Read about your mp3 spot calls! Slick!

Robb Jibson

[SourceChild]

Well Robb,

We certainly hope the fans in your computers move. If those parts start moving you're in for trouble.