Mac Pros, Ara, and Modularity

Re:Mac Pros, Ara, and Modularity by coldtea on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @10:54PM (#6644957)

You already had cables everywhere if you were a professional. I don't know any professional photographer, video editor or audio professional that doesn't use tons of external storage.

It's mainly non pros that argue that a few internal 2TB bays would be enough, which is laughable for pro use.

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Re:Mac Pros, Ara, and Modularity by brusch on Thursday October 31, 2013 @04:16AM (#6645720)

But if they were professionals didn't they use SAN (or at least NAS) for this ?

Don't get USB hard disks old pretty quick ? (and the performance with GByte LAN is much bigger). So it's just a single LAN cable ?

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Re:Mac Pros, Ara, and Modularity by simonh on Thursday October 31, 2013 @07:07AM (#6646127)

I suppose it depends whether you consider Pro and Enterprise to be synonymous. I don't think they are.

Anyway, what kind of high end Mac user ever bothered with USB drives, when you could use Firewire and have double the throughput with no CPU overhead?

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