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									RAID 5 inside a mid 2010 Mac Pro ? - Hardware Compatibility				            </title>
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                        <title>RAID 5 inside a mid 2010 Mac Pro ?</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/raid-5-inside-a-mid-2010-mac-pro/#post-2659</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 20:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[FYI: if you have a slot available, putting the two drives on a PCI card would probably double your RAID 0 performance. The DVD slots max out at about 150MB/s. that is why the 574MB/s max on ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[FYI: if you have a slot available, putting the two drives on a PCI card would probably double your RAID 0 performance. The DVD slots max out at about 150MB/s. that is why the 574MB/s max on the RAID 0, all drives are essentially bottle-necked by the two disks in the upper PCI bus.

My guess is, on a PCI card, you may get &gt; 900MB/s on a RAID 0]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>RAID 5 inside a mid 2010 Mac Pro ?</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/raid-5-inside-a-mid-2010-mac-pro/#post-2656</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[For those interested, I&#039;ve installed 2 disks in my Mac Pro&#039;s optical drive bay allowing for 6 disk internal SATA arrays. I benchmarked a few configurations and here are the results:

6 dis...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[For those interested, I've installed 2 disks in my Mac Pro's optical drive bay allowing for 6 disk internal SATA arrays. I benchmarked a few configurations and here are the results:

6 disk RAID 5 (what I currently use):
R: 480MB/s
W: 260MB/s

5 disk RAID 5:
R: 450MB/s
W: 273MB/s

4 disk RAID 5:
R: 390MB/s
W: 290MB/s

6 disk RAID 0:
R: 574MB/s
W: 507MB/s

6 disk RAID 4:
R: 553MB/s
W: 270MB/s

All tested using Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on the below machine.
4 disks are: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Toshiba/MG03ACA400/
2 disks are: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Toshiba/HDWE150XZSTA/

Mac Pro 5,1
2x 6-core 2.93GHz
48GB RAM
960GB PCIe SSD Boot disk
macOS 10.13.4]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/">Hardware Compatibility</category>                        <dc:creator>ahoyboyhoy</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RAID 5 inside a mid 2010 Mac Pro ?</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/raid-5-inside-a-mid-2010-mac-pro/#post-2303</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 20:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[thanks for the feedback!]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[thanks for the feedback!]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>RAID 5 inside a mid 2010 Mac Pro ?</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/raid-5-inside-a-mid-2010-mac-pro/#post-2299</link>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve all setted up with four 4To disks in RAID5 with SoftRaid ans everything is fine.

I did some speed test with Blackmagicdesign Disk Speed Test and I have : 305MB/s in write mode and 40...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I've all setted up with four 4To disks in RAID5 with SoftRaid ans everything is fine.

I did some speed test with Blackmagicdesign Disk Speed Test and I have : 305MB/s in write mode and 400.1 in read. I was not expecting such good results !

Now that the tests are done and they are conclusive, all I have to do is buy a SoftRaid license !]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/">Hardware Compatibility</category>                        <dc:creator>YannCBienmoi</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RAID 5 inside a mid 2010 Mac Pro ?</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/raid-5-inside-a-mid-2010-mac-pro/#post-2291</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2017 13:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Thanks a lot for the answer !

The MacPro is the 12 core version with 30Gb of RAM, and the SSD is already attached to the DVD connection on the motherboard so it should be fine with a 4 di...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Thanks a lot for the answer !

The MacPro is the 12 core version with 30Gb of RAM, and the SSD is already attached to the DVD connection on the motherboard so it should be fine with a 4 disks RAID5 volume managed with SoftRaid !]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/">Hardware Compatibility</category>                        <dc:creator>YannCBienmoi</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RAID 5 inside a mid 2010 Mac Pro ?</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/raid-5-inside-a-mid-2010-mac-pro/#post-2290</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2017 19:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Yes you can. A good recommendation is use an internal SSD for booting, which you connect via the lower DVD connection, then use the internal trays for a 4 drive RAID 5 volume. Power consumpt...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Yes you can. A good recommendation is use an internal SSD for booting, which you connect via the lower DVD connection, then use the internal trays for a 4 drive RAID 5 volume. Power consumption on this configuration will be fine. Performance won't be quite as good as with newer CPU's, but more than adequate.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>RAID 5 inside a mid 2010 Mac Pro ?</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/raid-5-inside-a-mid-2010-mac-pro/#post-397</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hi !
I&#039;m running a small video company in France and we have a mid 2010 Mac Pro workstation that needs new secured storage solution.

I was wondering if SoftRAid would work to create a Ra...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi !
I'm running a small video company in France and we have a mid 2010 Mac Pro workstation that needs new secured storage solution.

I was wondering if SoftRAid would work to create a Raid5 volume using the four internal sata drives of the Mac Pro ?]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/">Hardware Compatibility</category>                        <dc:creator>YannCBienmoi</dc:creator>
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