Hi,
I'm looking to buy a cheap Mac Pro 5,1 from ebay soon and wanted to add some fast storage to it. I was looking into the Newertech MAXPower RAID Mini SAS 6G2e card to give me 2 external SAS connectors to plug in up to 8 drives. This was all great in my head until I realised I'd neglected thinking about how to power the additional drives...
I wouldn't want to use these in RAID, just JBOD, each as individual disks so that I can see an additional 8 volumes within Finder.
Can anyone help me out please? I know that there is room to fit 8 drives in the optical bay (by removing the optical drives) but I don't really want to spend the $150 on the enclosure for that if I can help it.
Also, I'm not against switching RAID card if anyone has any better alternatives. I just picked this because I'd seen a few people say it worked well, but something bootable (under OSX) would be nicer than this.
Thanks!
I'm looking to buy a cheap Mac Pro 5,1 from ebay soon and wanted to add some fast storage to it. I was looking into the Newertech MAXPower RAID Mini SAS 6G2e card to give me 2 external SAS connectors to plug in up to 8 drives. This was all great in my head until I realised I'd neglected thinking about how to power the additional drives...
I wouldn't want to use these in RAID, just JBOD, each as individual disks so that I can see an additional 8 volumes within Finder.
Can anyone help me out please? I know that there is room to fit 8 drives in the optical bay (by removing the optical drives) but I don't really want to spend the $150 on the enclosure for that if I can help it.
Also, I'm not against switching RAID card if anyone has any better alternatives. I just picked this because I'd seen a few people say it worked well, but something bootable (under OSX) would be nicer than this.
Thanks!