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Re: can i speed up my tower? RAID and save some money - macisgr8 - 10-26-2010
Buy two 7200 rpm 500 GB hd's (or bigger and the same model) and RAID them as a stripe using Apple's Disk Utility. Then either reinstall a fresh OS or restore a Time Machine back to the RAID.
The speed increase is very significant.
I can send you the xbench results of before and after I did mine.
Re: can i speed up my tower? - bazookaman - 10-26-2010
SSDs are a bit out of my price range.
Re: can i speed up my tower? RAID and save some money - mattkime - 10-26-2010
if your machine is getting "slower and slower" then it is software
if you're getting more impatient, then buy hardware.
Re: can i speed up my tower? - motopsyco - 10-26-2010
I have a 1,1 '06 MacPro. When was the last time you did a clean install? I say back-up then nuke and pave. I do this every couple of years or so.
Cheers!
Re: can i speed up my tower? - decay - 10-26-2010
so, your boot drive: speed & cache?
this WD has 64 MB of cache, 7200 RPM
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=792
Key Features
High Performance Electronics Architecture
# Dual processor - Twice the processing power to maximize performance.
# Colossal cache - Bigger, faster cache of up to 64 MB means faster performance.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136544&Tpk=WD6402AAEX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533&cm_re=WD1002FAEX-_-22-136-533-_-Product
Re: can i speed up my tower? RAID and save some money - Paul F. - 10-26-2010
mattkime wrote:
if your machine is getting "slower and slower" then it is software
if you're getting more impatient, then buy hardware.
There's a certain clean, simple, elegance in this suggestion...
Re: can i speed up my tower? - anonymouse1 - 10-26-2010
Sounds like a software problem--how does it run on a new, clean user account?
Re: can i speed up my tower? RAID and save some money - bazookaman - 10-26-2010
will try a new user account tonight.
Re: can i speed up my tower? - kj4btkljv - 10-26-2010
bazookaman wrote:
I've got about 250 to 275gb free at any given time. I ran diskwarrior a week or 2 back. I try to keep my user account nice and tidy. Would a faster hard drive make a difference? Something smaller with just system and apps? Like a velociraptor?
I have set up my Mac Pro 1,1 2x3GHz Dual Core machine this way - 150GB Velociraptor as the boot and app drive, and an internal 7200RPM Seagate 1TB as my documents drive. Even moved my home folder over to the Seagate. Of course, both drives are backed up religiously.
http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
Jeff