BTW, CalDigit RAID card marked as out of stock in Caldigit's online shop. Looks like they are working on a new model for Mac Pro 2009 compatibility. Click to expand.No, it's not. It's design was based on the '06 - '08 models that used the iPass cables, but other 3rd party cards will work. You just place the Windows installation on it's own drive, ideally, on the logic board's SATA ports. I'd recommend looking at Areca or even Highpoint's RR43xx models (only these from Highpoint, as you can load an EFI firmware version to boot OS X).

With the Mac Pro RAID Card installed, high-performance 15,000-rpm SAS drives may be used. SAS drives are sold separately and available with the Promise 450GB SAS Drive for Mac Pro. The Mac Pro RAID Card supports the creation of multiple RAID sets in a system and multiple volumes per RAID set. With the Mac Pro RAID Card installed, high-performance 15,000-rpm SAS drives may be used. SAS drives are sold separately and available with the Promise 450GB SAS Drive for Mac Pro. The Mac Pro RAID Card supports the creation of multiple RAID sets in a system and multiple volumes per RAID set. 5.0 out of 5 stars - (W) Apple Raid Pcie Card - Mac Pro 2009 2010 2012 - 639-0108 Extra Battery. Lot Of 2 Genuine Apple Xserve Raid A1037 Battery Module 620-2743. 33-48 of 49 results for 'apple raid card' Reiko Genuine Leather Flip Wallet Case With Multi-Page Car Holders & RFID Shielded Card Slots Wallet Case for iPhone 6/6S 4.7' - Ivory. $21.76 $ 21 76 $22.90 Prime. FREE Shipping on eligible orders. Only 1 left in stock - order soon.

Unless you need RAID 5, or SAS drives, there is no reason to buy the RAID card. I bought this 2007 MP used with the Apple RAID card in it and those three drives set up as a RAID 0. Why was the card necessary? It wasn't, unless the previous onwer was thinking of RAID 5. You can remove the card if you want to, and regain deep sleep capability.

Then you can boot from your new drive, not the RAID. Once you've done that, you can use bootcamp as it is supposed to work. Windows XP installed without a hitch. The partition with the copy of your main system is not a bad thing to have either, incase you mess up your main system. I don't think you could wipe it, since I think (but am not sure) that it is needed for booting. You could probably shrink it to something tiny if you like.

It has 512MB of cache and an integrated 72-hour battery for protecting the RAID cache. The card occupies the top PCI Express slot (slot 4) and connects to the four internal drive bays. RAID Level Drive Requirements Benefit • Enhanced JBOD One to four drives A non-RAID configuration with the ability to migrate to a RAID set at any time • RAID 0 (striping) Two to four hard drives Maximum performance and capacity for the most demanding I/O requirements • RAID 1 (mirroring) Two hard drives Maximum protection for critical data • RAID 5 Three or four hard drives Data protection, high performance, and efficient capacity utilization • RAID 0+1 Four hard drives A mirror of striped drive pairs providing performance and data protection.

The third party cards are nice and have their own set of problems to. Oh and I respect Hatter and his vast knowledge, but there is no way I would use a software RAID for much of anything on a pro level. I have an early 2008 Mac Pro 2.8 - 8 core with 16GB of RAM. I bought it used, it came with an Apple RAID card and 4 x 1TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. I can say that I've never had any problems with the Apple RAID card (knock on wood), and it suits my needs just fine.

I recommended it to robert and another user, because there was no other at the time. When I bought mine I found a purple one in an auction, that I got for 1+chipping. As I see from your link, the card is available in the US, again now: I have the issue with my purple card, that When I open several movies after one another sometimes the pictures run quicker, but the sound is real time. Same can happen in iMovie-HD (version 5). Also, if you are running a big or complex movie and than click on something that makes a sound (like empty the trash or the speaker symbol, the sound is sometimes delayed. That might be due to the 100MHz BUS. The D/A of robert has 133MHz, maybe that helps, or it is just the green card itself, that is better than my purple one.

Apple EEE Code: N/A. Not Includes: Battery, Replacement RAID Board Only. Condition: Refurbished, by a 3rd party company that specializes in repairs. Warranty: 120 days.

For a list of less likely reasons, check. That's all I can think of at the moment, I'll update this post when I mess around installing more drives. I had the 2009 Apple RAID Card for a while.

The issue is not the drive, as I swapped it around and it was doing the exact same thing, so the connection as you say might be faulty. That same original reported drive is now sitting in the G5, as I explained previously I had to pilfer it from the Mac Pro to have some space to edit with.

But that; Disk Utility got a major facelift, and it also had its feature set modified. One of the major changes was that Apple removed any ability to set up and configure a redundant array of independent disks (RAID). You had to turn to a third-party app to do so. In macOS Sierra’s Disk Utility (version 16.0, if you’re keeping track), the RAID features are back. Here’s how to set up and configure a software RAID using macOS Sierra’s Disk Utility. You can use Disk Utility if you, say, bought a multi-bay drive chassis and have filled it with spare hard drive mechanisms you had sitting in storage. Or you already have a RAID array and need to reconfigure it.

Click to expand.Good to know that the PSU is up to the task. I have a SCSI card in my Sawtooth with connections for two internal 68-pin SCSI busses, and have been considering loading it up with as many drives as I can shoehorn in. Unfortunately, most of the SCSI drives I have are relatively small so I'd probably benefit a lot more(both in terms of power consumption and in real world use) from sticking an IDE or SATA card in it and putting a couple of drives in that way. The SCSI set up seems like a more 'Mac like' solution, however, since I seem to recall reading that it was a BTO option on this era G4s. @ Robert: Thanks for crediting me! Also for putting the information here, would have taken me some time, to find it myself, again, since I didn't save the link to the card!

On starting BootCamp off, I noticed an issue; I have a cinema display which the USB SuperDrive was running off of, BootCamp doesn't like this; you get stuck at a lovely DOS black screen. Fortunately, if you run it directly off of a Mac Pro USB port, it runs fine (albeit pretty slow initially). Since I have RAID set up, I didn't really want to remove it all just to sort my new BootCamp volume out, so I tried installing it directly from the USB SuperDrive to the 2nd ODD Bay. Works perfectly It'd be interesting to see if you can BootCamp from a USB drive created using the Microsoft USB creator tool, but since I didn't have another machine running Windows, I couldn't test this out. I hope this is helpful.

I think the drive removed event should even tell you which drive it is. Try using the system without that drive or perhaps just replace it. If it is a drive, replacing the RAID card isn't going to help, you need to replace the failing drive(s). It sounds like your bought the drives with the system, so they should still be covered by the warranty. Give AppleCare a call. Thanks for your response. The firmware might have more success in this regard.

To change it you have to start over. • Capacity: This is based on the drives you selected in the previous step.

So here's a question from an almost complete novice on all this: If I can RAID the three other 500Gb drives in my MP simply using disk utility, can I make a RAID 1 using that RAID and an external 1Tb drive? Can you RAID a RAID? Or would it just need to be a Time Machine b/u of that internal RAID?

Areca also has cards that will boot EFI (originally created for Itanium based systems, but it works in MP's). They also are the ODM for the RR43xx cards for Highpoint, and it's a little better (has larger firmware, additional features, and will boot multiple OS's, as where the RR43xx you have to choose one or the other; BIOS vs. Click to expand.ARC-1680 series (ARC-1680ix12 in an '08 base model to be specific). But any of them that indicate they work in EFI would work. So additional details would be helpful, such as: • Port count (consider future expansion too, as new cards aren't cheap.

RAID 1 volumes must be equal sizes, so it would only be able to use 1 TB of your three 500 GB drives, in order to match the 1 TB external drive. Also, write speeds would be limited by the single external drive. And incidentally, what's the point of buying a RAID card for a RAID 0 or 1? The cache on the card might provide a slight speed-up, but probable not noticeably.

WinXP's installation passed successfully, but i've got black screen again trying to boot WinXP from that SATA drive after RAID card re-installed. I too am interested in finding a workaround for this. To my understanding, installing windows is not the issue, the problem lies in its boot. I have a drive devoted entirely for windows 7 that functions properly when the card is not connected.

When your Mac needs to read a file, the performance is faster because the data can be read by multiple drives. • Concatenated (JBOD): This simply takes your drives and uses them to create one storage volume. It doesn’t offer data protection or better speed.

I am using it to boot my Home Server Mac Pro 2009/10. I managed to get my hands on 2x SM951 AHCI 256GB SSD.It works OOB with booting included.However, TRIM Support was unavailable and Apple's Trimforce terminal command was didn't work.However,I managed to find the solution to the TRIM problem in this insanelymac forum. Secondly,Even though the drives were installed in PCI-E slot 3 and 4, which are internal slots,Mac OS X Sierra recognises it as external drives which could be ejected. The Barefeats 6000MBps test was with four SSD drives in a RAID0 setup on a single - see. Each SSD can do approaching 1500MBps hence 4 x 1500 = 6000. Logically doing 2 x 1500 should give you 3000MBps. What speed are you getting with a single SSD?

- the drives are shown as ejectable orange icons (like external Firewire- or USB-drives) @ pohiiy: Often things are more expensive, because it says Mac. Sellers have ripped off people for a long time in selling Mac-compatible HDDs or RAM. With the bootable, genuine Mac cards, you pay also for the ROM on it, which makes it bootable. (ROM = contains the Firmware for the Mac on the card itself. The Mac-drivers linked to are to install on the Mac, not the card. The card itself still has the PC Firmware on it).

Note: RAID0 means stripped, RAID1 means mirrored. If I erased the drives and do the RAID, will the TRIM support be unavailable as i activated TRIM only after the OS is installed as TRIM is enabled through terminal commands.Or is enabling TRIM after the installation the same as enabling TRIM before the installation? Is there a way to partition a RAID0 Array after the RAID as i would want to have two partitions with different operation systems? Does this mean i cant just use any kind of 4K screen snd have to find a MST screen?Does the HD 7950 and 7970 work with SST screens?

The two drives at the top of the Mac were hand lashed together using zip ties, but each drive was bolted to single drive plates from that era of Power Macs. I've also done SATA drives in the very same Digital Audio 466: MDD drive cages were my preferred method when it came to SATA drives. Click to expand.No Problem as long as you don't use one of the bigger CPU Upgrades and a strong graphics card at the same time, along with the 8 Drives and additional PCI-Cards such as for USB.

Though, with a GE, DA and QS model you will be on the safer side for a bit longer. Somewhere, here on the forum, I posted heat and power consumption for a Sawtooth for 8 Drives + 3 SATA-cards + ATI 9200 + 1,2GHz Sonnet CPU. The graphics card and the CPU are not those 'bigger' upgrades I mentioned. As far as I remember at startup it peaked out at 160W shortly (the Sawtoth PSU can handle 228W, some have the a 208W PSU, and 128W over longer durations). It idled at around 100W or so, I think. I don't have the time to search for the post now. Also, when considering to buy a SATA-card, you can get a few with SIL3124 Chip for 10-15USD.

General info: PCI-X has double the data throughput (65MB/s instead of 35MB/s) than PCI. So get one as shown by robertdcs. I recommended it to robert and another user, because there was no other at the time. When I bought mine I found a purple one in an auction, that I got for 1+chipping. As I see from your link, the card is available in the US, again now: I have the issue with my purple card, that When I open several movies after one another sometimes the pictures run quicker, but the sound is real time. Same can happen in iMovie-HD (version 5). Also, if you are running a big or complex movie and than click on something that makes a sound (like empty the trash or the speaker symbol, the sound is sometimes delayed.

If your only getting say 600Mbps then at best your only going to get 2 x 600 = 1200MBps. As far as I am aware the Barefeats test was using the same Apple software RAID and yes allegedly the SoftRAID product is superior in terms of performance. What 4K screen(s) do you intend to use? According to MacVidCards.com the HD7950/7970 may work best with MST screens and the GTX card better with SST screens. Most modern 4K screens are now SST. My single SM951 SSD speeds are 1100mb/s writes and 1200mb/s reads.When i use AppleRAID Software to create a striped RAID, the speeds were 1200mb/s writes and 1400mb/s reads.I only enabled TRIM after i tested the disks so could it be because of that? Pat farmer in the running for mac.

The Mac hardware and software RAID might be compatible, but I wouldn't count on it. Even minor changes, such as updating a drive's firmware, can break a RAID set. Here is the manual for the RAID card. The only reason there's been any complaints about the new RAID Card is becasue it's not released. How can anyone complain about something's functionality, when there's nothing to test or physically complain about?

Just read the card installation manual backwards. Make sure you have good backups, since you will probably lose all the data when setting up software RAID.

This is much worse on one of the mac pro's but both computers have problems. When rebooting there are no problems on one of the mac pro's but the other also have problems here. First off the card should still be under warranty so head to your local reseller and get a new one free of charge.

If you work with large files, like with video or 3D graphics, choose 128K or 256K. If you are a more general purpose user who does email, writes, or works in spreadsheets or databases, choose 32K or 64K. • If you are building a RAID 1, you’ll see an option to “Automatically rebuild.” This means that if a drive is removed and then replaced, the data will automatically be restored to the new drive. Check this box if you want this option. If you don’t, you rebuild the RAID using the Disk Utility app. RAID properties. Once you click Next, your Mac will start to configure your RAID array, so don’t click it until you are ready.