Questions & Answers
9 Questions from the Community
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Do you need to have the RAID card installed if you only use external RAID drives and don't use the internal drives? I'm new to RAID.
- Asked by Louise R from Bellingham
- Mar 1, 2012
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Will the hardware controller work with Hitachi 1TB 7200rpm SATA drives? (The description seems to say that it will only work with SAS...)
- Asked by Harold I from Montreal
- Apr 8, 2011
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Yes. I have three standard SATA 1TB 7200 Hitachi drives in my Mac Pro that are in RAID5 via this card.
- Answered by Marcus U from Arvada
- Aug 17, 2011
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What does the battery exactly do in this card? I know it "protects" the write cache, but a little more in details?
I have 2 cards and both batteries failed, I have forced on the write cache and everything seems to work fine, what is the risk in running my mac like that????
I use it mainly for recording with nuendo, but my standard session is about 100 tracks.- Asked by Corrado C from Napoli
- Dec 11, 2010
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If the Mac loses power during a write to the RAID, the battery will save the cache until either power is restored and the write is completed, or the battery eventually dies and the write cache is lost. The battery should last 72 hours, which in theory gives you enough time to get power back to the Mac Pro.
- Answered by Marcus U from Arvada
- Aug 17, 2011
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Can I use this RAID Card for my mid-2008 MAC Pro?
- Asked by Brian W from Cibolo
- Oct 17, 2009
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Best Answer
No!, This card will only work with the Mac Pro (Early 2009)
- Answered by Mike R from Oxford
- Dec 9, 2009
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Can I use this card in addition to the on board controller? ie;the system drive using the on board controller & other 3 drives using the raid card ?
- Asked by Dean S from Thousand Oaks
- Oct 29, 2009
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I just bought a mac pro with the raid card. The answer is no. Everything goes through the raid card. I'm going to try to get a eSata card and try to boot from an external drive. eSata should be about 3 times faster the FW800.
- Answered by Raymond M from Downers Grove
- Mar 28, 2010
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Driver for windows?
Is there a windows driver available for this card?
- Asked by Bjarni J from Windermere
- Aug 3, 2010
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How high is power consumption of this card?
- Asked by Miloå¡ Å from Telä
- Dec 10, 2009
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Will this work with a Mid-2010 Mac Pro?
- Asked by Ilya L from New York
- Jun 2, 2011
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Will this work with a Mid-2010 Mac Pro?
- Asked by Alex R from Pointe-claire
- Aug 25, 2010
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