Paul M
Registered
Hi All,
I have a mid-2010 2 x 2.66GHz 6-core with all 4 internal drive bays filled, a superdrive in the standard location, and another HDD under that in the SATA connection designated "Lower" . Back in Jan 2012 I connected an SSD to a Sonnet Tempo E4i - with the power daisy-chained from the "Lower" SATA position, and so far things have been just fine.
Now I'd like to replace the Sonnet Tempo E4i with a MAXPower Raid mini-sas 6G-1e1i card (in the spare x16 slot) to get SATA 6G/s read speed with 2 SSDs.
I used BackMagic Disk Speed Test on one SSD connected to the E4i and got 270.1 MB/s read. With the mini-sas I got 474.1!
My question is, can a 2010 MacPro5,1 handle the power consumption of 1 SuperDrive, 5 HDDs and 2 SSDs?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
I have a mid-2010 2 x 2.66GHz 6-core with all 4 internal drive bays filled, a superdrive in the standard location, and another HDD under that in the SATA connection designated "Lower" . Back in Jan 2012 I connected an SSD to a Sonnet Tempo E4i - with the power daisy-chained from the "Lower" SATA position, and so far things have been just fine.
Now I'd like to replace the Sonnet Tempo E4i with a MAXPower Raid mini-sas 6G-1e1i card (in the spare x16 slot) to get SATA 6G/s read speed with 2 SSDs.
I used BackMagic Disk Speed Test on one SSD connected to the E4i and got 270.1 MB/s read. With the mini-sas I got 474.1!
My question is, can a 2010 MacPro5,1 handle the power consumption of 1 SuperDrive, 5 HDDs and 2 SSDs?
Thanks in advance,
Paul