Questions & Answers for Mac Pro RAID Card
13 Questions from the Community
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Will this card work with the 4 x 512GB SSD option available when ordering a Mac Pro?
I'd like to make 2 volumes, each RAID 1 to get the speed of SSD with the reliability of mirroring for a VCS/SCM server. One volume for the VCS data and the other volume for boot and the VCS journal.
- Asked by Gary P from Eden Prairie
- Oct 24, 2012
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AnswerRE: Henry M from Lafayette
I believe your answer is correct, but are we looking at different Apple websites? Footnote #7 on the Mac Pro specs page (/macpro/specs.html on www.apple.com) is "1GB = 1 billion bytes and 1TB = 1 trillion bytes; actual formatted capacity less." It says nothing about the Mac Pro RAID card on the Mac Pro specs page I can see.- Answered by Gary P from Eden Prairie
- Nov 1, 2012
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I'm currently using all four drives in my 2009 mac pro in two software raid arrays... will I be able to migrate these arrays to use this card?
I'd rather not reformat and loose all my data in this upgrade process...
- Asked by Scott P from Toronto
- Nov 4, 2012
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What is a replacement for Apple RAID Card
I'm looking for a suitable replacement for the Apple Raid Card. I have replaced the battery (Apple service), and now the machine is again crashing. Prefer not to buy the same card again.
- Asked by Charles M from Fairfax
- Oct 31, 2012
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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 AnswerNo!, This card will only work with the Mac Pro (Early 2009)
- Answered by Mike R from Oxford
- Dec 9, 2009
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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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AnswerYes. 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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Will this work with a Mid-2010 Mac Pro?
- Asked by Alex R from Pointe-claire
- Aug 25, 2010
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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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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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AnswerNo, absolutely not.
This card is only if you want to use the internal drive bays in a Mac Pro to have a RAID 5 array.
If you want anything else on the internal drives (RAID 0 or RAID 1) and you're better off using Disk Utility.
If you've got an external RAID chassis, then you use the RAID hardware in the chassis, not this card.- Answered by Kai H from Manchester
- Mar 30, 2012
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What is the part number for the replacement Apple RAID battery?
I have an apple RAID controller and the battery needs to be replaced. What is the part number for the battery?
- Asked by John F from Cambridg
- Sep 4, 2012
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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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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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AnswerIf 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 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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AnswerI 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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How high is power consumption of this card?
- Asked by Miloå¡ Å from Telä
- Dec 10, 2009
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