There are various levels of RAID, as explained in the linked article above.

RAID is a method of combining two or more physical disks into one logical device, and OS X has supported it for many years. Here’s a shot of the inside, with the various areas labeled (click the image for a larger version). There are also four hard drive bays, and room for two externally-accessible optical drives. The RAM cards, for instance, are on two cards that pull out completely to ease the installation of more memory. Whereas my G5’s innards are mostly devoted to cooling fans (nine of them), the Mac Pro’s lower cooling requirements let Apple use the available space to allow for greater expansion. Unlike the insides of the otherwise-identical case on my G5, the Mac Pros have a ton of room inside the case. Given that I had this great machine sitting there in front of me, and it had spare ports all over the place, I thought I should try to fill some of them up. But for those still on modems, I think this is a real issue-you’d almost have to take the machine into a dealer, or to a friend’s house with a fast connection.Īfter the software updates (and a firmware upgrade), I rebooted and the machine ran perfectly.

Thankfully, we’ve recently switched to Verizon’s FIOS, so download time wasn’t a problem. Yikes! If you’re on dial-up, you’re looking at 16-plus hours until your new Mac Pro is ready to go. Add those figures up, and you’ll see that it comes in at over 415MB worth of data.

True Burner Pro 9.4 instal