Gigabit ethernet is the fastest way you can do it without going to the expense of 10Gb ethernet. That said, the old Mac Pros use a lot of power and put out a lot of heat, and you'd get better performance just plugging some fast storage straight into your MBP.
hmmm that would have been nice, if it wasn't for a 600 eur 10GbaseT adaptor :/ you are right. but maybe the future will bring some new options... at least the old machine would probably go easily for around 100 bucks, i just checked...
ijust found this thread, and it sounds quite interesting
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/what-are-the-options-for-10gbe-on-mac-pros.1959937/
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^^pretty much this. I'm sure the 5,1 could take on some more tasks to justify its power consumption. How are your backups situated?
yes you are right, that in mind i remember some article on the internet about a guy who tested his consumption in Server mode while he had the GPU disconnected or in some sleep state, and it wasn't much higer than with a NAS Thing.
And you are right the 5.1 does do pretty much good Stuff. Till 2 Weeks ago it was my Nø1 Machine doing Retouch work.
It still can do pretty much everything on a professional level. (filled with pciE SSD's, lots of RAM, USB3 pciE, a Radeon R9 and a lot of dust) Except Lightroom's 100% views kills the game, as editing large series is almost not possible. that said, you maybe understand that i would like to keep the 5.1 as backUp in case something happens to the Laptop. ... Work has to be done and does not wait for a up and running machine.
And yes, the BackUp solution... i got quite a bunch of Discs spinning and brzzling in the 5.1, doing Backups via an USB3 Sata-dock . so i always got 3 sets of internalHDDs lying around at different places for maximum security. Done via Chronosync...
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Waste of time and money using the MP. Just get an external thunderbolt HDD box and fill it with SSDs.
Or get an external pcie enclosure and put pcie SSDs into it.
Sell the MP.
maybe keep your oppinion for you, as long as you don't know all facts. Your decision to give advice may not be so thoroughly thoughtfull and may seem unappropriate or as a unneccessary statement of a somewhat
dogmatic mind.
take for example just the noise, a laptop produces in full operation. I would rather go a little slower that having that surrrrr all the time. My MacPro is supersilent, e.g.
And thank you for the PCIE enclosure hint. that is something i forgot to focus on, and maybe also a solution for the 10GBaseT idea.
