Have interest in acquiring an eBay cMP with no HDs. Is this a wise move? If so, what is involved with getting it up an running?
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MP 1,1-5,1 Used cMP with no HD
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I hope that whoever removed the HD(s) put the drive sleds (the removeable mounts for the HD that simply slide into place. If not, you need to know which cMP that you would be getting, as those HD mount slides are available in two different types (and are not interchangeable.)
Assuming no problem with the sleds, you would just need a hard drive or drives.
Bootable installer with your choice of OS X system. Install OS X on your new, mac-formatted hard drive (or SSD is even better). If you want something like High Sierra or newer, you do want to find out if the graphics card supports metal.
You can come back here if you are not sure about what you have. There's some very experienced MacPro users on this site.
Assuming no problem with the sleds, you would just need a hard drive or drives.
Bootable installer with your choice of OS X system. Install OS X on your new, mac-formatted hard drive (or SSD is even better). If you want something like High Sierra or newer, you do want to find out if the graphics card supports metal.
You can come back here if you are not sure about what you have. There's some very experienced MacPro users on this site.
This unit was originally a server model. I assume that won’t be a problem if I load it with a normal OS X. Anything I need to be wary of?
The Server was just a configuration, not a real hardware difference with the non-server MacPro.
It would have shipped with OS X Server system software, and came with two hard drives as standard.
Other than that, both would have the same ECC memory installed, and video cards might have included different models. Not any real differencs in the hardware.
You can just erase a server system, and reinstall a "normal" non-server macOS system.
It would have shipped with OS X Server system software, and came with two hard drives as standard.
Other than that, both would have the same ECC memory installed, and video cards might have included different models. Not any real differencs in the hardware.
You can just erase a server system, and reinstall a "normal" non-server macOS system.
Hardware is the same, but the Mac Pro Server firmware is a little different, it has a profile inside of the 4th store of the NVRAM volume that completely changes the defaults of power management, even for standard (non MacOS Server installs).
Not exactly, macOS installer parses the hardwareIDs and then change the power management defaults, probably other little things here and there on SysPref. I wrote about it on the BootROM thread.