nMP - what to do with internal drives

[FredT2]

Yes, FredT2. I have received the CalDigit T3. I have set it up, re-formatted the hard drives, and used SuperDuper to copy and update the contents of the existing extra hard drives in my 2008 Mac Pro.

So far it has performed flawlessly. And CalDigit has been fast to answer a couple of support questions I had.

Very happy with it at this point. Now I just need to receive the nMP and plug it in to a TB port.

Very nice. How about noise. Does the fan run all of the time, how loud is it?

 

[Killerbob]

That depends on how many drives you put into RAID 0. It will take quite a lot of HDDs to run against TB1 bandwidth limitations.

I don't know about in the tests, but in real life I have had a setup where Windows was installed on a bootcamped RAID0 array, connected to my MBA5,2 via TB, and that was significantly slower than when installed on the internal SSD. I tried it as well on the USB3 bus, and it was still not acceptable performance.