Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:13:04 +1100 Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <480681549404159505.629303address_is-invalid.invalid@news.giganews.com> <221020131440529380%nospam@nospam.invalid> <5266eb51$0$12645$c3e8da3$69010069@news.astraweb.com> <221020131743372977%nospam@nospam.invalid> <5266fae3$0$53692$c3e8da3$14a0410e@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net tygqWc+EtmuKSGIvzDvKZQSFugAyEoASX2vsb5Np9N8kyD+VM= Cancel-Lock: sha1:MRFmD9DIveMOrdqn1iPWyYMn4NI= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:28492 comp.sys.mac.system:50438 Jolly Roger wrote > Lewis wrote >> Jolly Roger wrote >>> JF Mezei wrote >>>> nospam wrote >>>>> it have very fast internal storage and can >>>>> connect to external via thunderbolt 2. >>>>> people who buy high end systems typically have raid arrays. >>>> Did Apple announce a separate box to >>>> hold real disk drives for a storage array ? >>> Are you suggesting it would be good for Apple to enter the storage >>> box market? Do you have any actual data to back that up? >>>> Out of curiosity, do storage arrays today support Thunderbolt 2 ? >>> Go find out for yourself, since it matters to you. >>>> So that 43 watt quote for the new MacPro when idle is rather empty >>>> promise if you need to buy seperate boxes with their own power >>>> supplies to fill the needs of what is missing inside the MacPro. >>> So your position is that the existing storage options >>> in the new Mac Pro are insufficient for most people? >>> I'm finding that a little hard to swallow, personally, considering I am >>> one >>> of those people and think the storage would be sufficient for my needs. >> As long as you're not doing video. > Is there data suggesting that most Mac Pro owners do video? Most isn't what matters, what matters is whether significant numbers of them do. And presumably significant numbers do given that a laptop isnt really that viable for a PVR. > I'd find that hard to believe. Having fun thrashing that straw man ? > I'm a software developer and system administrator, > and 1TB of storage is plenty for my needs. And wouldn’t be if you did video. > At the moment, I've got a 480 GB SSD > in this Mac Pro, and I've got 130+ GB free. Irrelevant to what happens if you use it for video.