MacPro can do 3 TB of HDD
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
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Apple's are $400 a pop.
Edu: $360.
But Newegg is still less expensive.
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~$0.80
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.
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!