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Up to 1527MB/s sustained performance
OWC Accelsior 4M2 PCIe SSD
6000 MB/sec!
Mac or PC.
Ideal for Lightroom, Photoshop, video.
Capacity up to 16TB!
6000 MB/sec!
Mac or PC.
Ideal for Lightroom, Photoshop, video.
Capacity up to 16TB!
Mac Pro Westmere Introduction
A Mac Pro is expensive enough to begin with, but paying more for the same performance is silly. The focus of my attention is on the hexacore 3.33GHz “Westmere” configuration. It looks to be the top performing model of the line (or close to it) and a much lower cost than the 12-core models. Of course, specialty uses can make use of 12 cores, but most software cannot.
Viewpoint
This special report takes a photographer’s viewpoint on the Apple Mac Pro, asking what is good enough and what is the absolute best for most users.
Performance and value
Here is the base configuration that will make 95% of Mac users very happy.
Upgrade to a pre-tested and pre-configured MPG Pro Workstation for top performance.
See the Buying a Mac Pro page for recommended configurations
Keep reading
Subsequent pages go into details on the new Mac Pro Westmere 2010.
See also
√ No more slow and noisy hard drives!
OWC ThunderBay FLEX 8
8-bay Thunderbolt 3
2.5 or 3.5 inch hard drives, NVMe SSD, USB-C, USB-A, DisplayPort 1.4, SD slot, PCIe slot, 500W power supply.
Non-RAID or RAID-0/1/4/5/10.
Capacities up to 128 Terabytes!
8-bay Thunderbolt 3
2.5 or 3.5 inch hard drives, NVMe SSD, USB-C, USB-A, DisplayPort 1.4, SD slot, PCIe slot, 500W power supply.
Non-RAID or RAID-0/1/4/5/10.
Capacities up to 128 Terabytes!
Hard drives or SSD.
