MacPro can do 3 TB of HDD

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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
There is a 750GB HDD out there now, this would allow 3 TB of storage in the Mac Pro, and at $399/Ea, it beats Apples $400/Ea for 500 GB HDDs...



Price/Gig:

Apple: ~$0.80

Newegg: ~$0.53



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148134





Updated. I was posting the wrong price Apple is $400, not $500

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 11
    I've heard that the Mac Pro can only do 3 750GB drives, which is why they don't let you get them BTO.
  • Reply 2 of 11
    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,419member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by theapplegenius


    I've heard that the Mac Pro can only do 3 750GB drives, which is why they don't let you get them BTO.



    Could be true but it makes no technical sense. The controller on the motherboard supports 6 SATA drives. There's no technical reason why there would be a limitation.
  • Reply 3 of 11
    slugheadslughead Posts: 1,169member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by theapplegenius


    I've heard that the Mac Pro can only do 3 750GB drives, which is why they don't let you get them BTO.



    I think it had more to do with the ability to get them in volume and in time.



    They probably have thousands of the drives in a factory in china already screwed into the drive rails, ready to be put into the box.



    As far as pricing, the notorious RAM rip-off is afoot.. I did the pricing on 16GB worth.



    Newegg prices EIGHT 2GB chips (16GB) at $2,936 whereas Apple charges $5,700 (plus sales tax in every state that has sales tax, at 7% that's $6,099).



    Oh, PS, that $5700 is the UPGRADE figure, meaning that it's actually 5700 plus the price of the 512 stick which you forfeit. The ~$3k figure from newegg.com lets you keep those two 512 chips ($208 newegg) for your resale on e-bay.



    So, if you pay zero sales tax from newegg, a 7% sales tax from Apple, then Apple's RAM is $3,360 more expensive, or 123% more for 16GB.
  • Reply 4 of 11
    icfireballicfireball Posts: 2,594member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by a_greer


    There is a 750GB HDD out there now, this would allow 3 TB of storage in the Mac Pro, and at $399/Ea, it beats Apples $500/Ea for 500 GB HDDs...



    Price/Gig:

    Apple: $1

    Newegg: ~$0.53



    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148134



    Apple's are $400 a pop.



    Edu: $360.



    But Newegg is still less expensive.
  • Reply 5 of 11
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by slughead


    INewegg prices EIGHT 2GB chips (16GB) at $2,936 whereas Apple charges $5,700 (plus sales tax in every state that has sales tax, at 7% that's $6,099).



    Those don't have bult-in heatsinks, however.
  • Reply 6 of 11
    Are there any 1tb SATA drives?
  • Reply 7 of 11
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    750 GB is the highest available capacity at this point.
  • Reply 8 of 11
    Thanks.
  • Reply 9 of 11
    a_greera_greer Posts: 4,594member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by icfireball


    Apple's are $400 a pop.



    Edu: $360.



    But Newegg is still less expensive.



    ooops'



    ~$0.80
  • Reply 10 of 11
    a_greera_greer Posts: 4,594member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chucker


    Those don't have bult-in heatsinks, however.



    Give it a few weeks, I would bet you that there are 3rd party RAM companies like crucial, kingston and even the no-name-house brands doing QA on the heatsinked chips right now...I would bet they will be ~$20/chip more and they will work in the MacPro like a champ.
  • Reply 11 of 11
    slugheadslughead Posts: 1,169member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chucker


    Those don't have bult-in heatsinks, however.



    They do, they're just not as big



    we're talking over a 100% price difference here, I'm sure the sinks won't be that much.



    If the price difference is too much,, I'll just attach my own.



    Edit: Yep, someone at macrumors already thought of it. They attached their own heatsinks:

    http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16835118220





    He says he's adding this one next:

    http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16835116012

    That adds $10/chip, or $160 to my estimates. I'm not going to redo the math



    Edit2: Kingston and crucial are actually removing their products from the market because the heatsinks are not visually similar to Apple's.



    Get 'em while they're hot!
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