Apple ships Leopard-compatible Mac Pro RAID Card
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 1, 2007 at 12:55pm
Apple has released a US$999 Mac Pro RAID Card. It sports a hardware RAID engine, 256MB of cache, and an integrated 72-hour battery for protecting cache data.
The card occupies the top PCI Express slot (slot 4) of your Mac Pro and requires Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) or later. Apple says the Mac Pro RAID Card offers improved storage performance and data protection to your Mac Pro system—up to 304MB/second of sequential read performance in RAID 0.
The hardware RAID option supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 0+1, and Enhanced JBOD. It has 256MB of cache and an integrated 72-hour battery for protecting the RAID cache. The card connects to the four internal drive bays. To enable your Mac Pro for hardware RAID, install the Mac Pro RAID Card and two or more hard drives in bays 1-4 4. Each RAID level has minimum requirements for the number of hard drives.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
