I just bought a new Mac Pro and do lots of Photoshop and want to swap out the stock 320 gig drive. I'm leaning towards 2 ultra fast Seagate 1 TB drives in a raid 0 configuration. The Raptor noise level scares me a bit.
Anything negative to say about the Seagate drives? Any other configs?
What is the optimal raid config. with four 300GB SAS drives? - Speed being the over-riding factor here.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI know...I know, I could try to do a search to see what others are doing but give an ol boy a break. I need advice...I have 2 F1 750s (just arrived), XP 64, and Fusion software setting in front of me. I also have the stock 320 HD already in my beast. What would be the best set up using all three HDs and loading XP/Fusion.
View 5 Replies View RelatedDo I need to jumper these any particular way?
Bay 1: Stock 500GB (Windows)
Bay 2: 150GB Raptor (for OS X / apps)
Bay 3: 150GB Raptor (for Pro Tools Audio)
Bay 4: 1TB Barracuda (for Time Machine)
Currently I have 2x500GB and 1x250GB in my Mac Pro. I use 1 500GB as my boot drive, another as my Time Machine drive, and the 250 GB as a scratch disk/boot camp (although honestly I usually forget it's there).
My free space on my main drive has been fluctuating between 20GB and 3 GB due to encoding video. So last night I went to Newegg's site and ordered a 1TB drive. My intent is to run the 2 500GB's in RAID.
So my question is... should I run the 1 TB as my boot drive or the 2x500GB as my boot drive? Short term it would be easiest to run the 1 TB as my boot drive since I'd clone it to the 1TB. If I want to run the 2x500GB as my boot drive I need to clone twice essentially.
OK I just got a new Nehalem quad core Mac Pro. I am new to Mac and I bought it because I will be doing some heavy video editing. I have 4 harddrives for it, a 640gb that came with it, and 3 1TB seagates barracuda's. My question is exactly how I should set up my RAID config to be as fast as possible?
I have read some articles about RAID 0 on Mac Pro's but am a little confused. Setups that any of you use would be much appreciated.
I've just setup the basic installation of 10.5 server. For some reason it's picked up the wrong info for the .config file - it's using my laptop's name.
So to access remotely via ssh, it says I need to use "ssh myServerName@myLaptop.config.
Why has this happened and how do I change it?
I seem to have trouble connecting my mpb with certain hdtv's - sony, toshiba. the screen resolution seems to always be bigger than the actual tv size, so the ends are cut off, such as menubar and dock can't be seen.
i can't change the settings on my tv, and the display settings on the mbp are limited. is there any app which can adjust the screen size manually? such as a zoom out tool?
I'm a FCP / AE / Compressor user and have been in the market to upgrade my painfully slow G5 for years now. I'm pulling the trigger on a 2010 and trying to decide the best set up. I'm going with a 12-core but thinking the 2.66. Not sure if the extra $1200 can be justified to go to the 2.99. Anyone have an opinion?
I thought with that $1200 I could get more RAM instead. So, my second question is what the best move would be for RAM. I'm going with the base offering from apple and will remove and replace with either 2 or 3 8GB sticks or more 4GB sticks.
Figured I would come right to you guys (even though I'm a Macbook PRO owner I know this is the place to ask questions)My current config is a 1.8 GHZ Core 2 duo (base)13" model, 128GB SSD, 4GB ram upgrade (is this smart?)Warranty 1 year...will upgrade later this year.Free printer..100 cost, 100 rebate..worth it?Anything else I should add? How will this perform with imovie, iphoto, windows dual boot if I choose to?also adding pre install of iWork...41 bucks to add with student discount and promo price.
View 16 Replies View Relatedi had my friends white book and when i opened the air port it found the linksys wireless G router i had had connected but it didnt ask me for the password.
I know i set a password for the linksys router because when i log on using my HP it ask me for the password.
Question is what did i do wrong? or are the linksys wireless routers not the best things to use with the mac?
Meeting with my IT dept this afternoon to go over final configuration options for the 09 MP I'm getting. I've monitored these forums for the past month, and I think I'm close but have a few more questions. Note: This will be the first Mac in an all-PC environment. No one at our help desk is trained to support Macs.
1. RAID setup - Based on another thread I started, it seems to make sense to go with the 640 GB system drive, an Areca ARC-1212 card, and 3 x Western Digital 1TB RE3s. By my calculations, this would be a better setup for half the cost of going with the Apple RAID and their 3 x 1TB drives.
My IT dept realizes this, but no one here has much experience setting up RAIDs, let alone on Macs, which they will be learning to support on the fly. Because of this, they are leaning toward the Apple RAID card, if only for Apple support reasons. Can anyone who has experience with Areca vouch for their quality of tech support and/or the ease of setting this up? Does going with a non-Apple option for a RAID have any effect on the Apple Care warranty?
2. Graphics Card - To use my existing (PC workstation) setup of 2x24� dell monitors plus a 19� preview monitor, the Apple rep said I would need the 2xNVIDIA GeForce GT 120 option (plus the Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter option) to run a non-Apple display for the third monitor. He mentioned they do sell more powerful cards to handle my same monitor setup, but they would have to be purchased separately and we�d still have to get the one I just mentioned.
New ADSL Modem/Router from ISP.A Zyxel P-660HN-T1A_1Pv6 Only wanted the modem function as I use Time Capsule and an Airport Express to extend the signal.On bringing up the modem web page and login box for device configuration, my password is not accepted using Safari ( My default browser)I have managed a successful login with Firefox(on adjusting permissions) and immediately with Opera and Google Chrome.I use "wireless"off and the Open DNS servers, but the login failed initially while showing my ISP's DNS addresses To add to the confusion, a friend who was visiting today with his laptop was able to access my device configuration with his Safari (which he doesn't use usually) I am left with the conclusion that there is something in my Safari setup which is blocking the browser from accepting the password.For the life of me I can't identify it and other than checking others' setups I don't know where to go from here.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
I've been using my Logitech MX1000 for a long time now with USB Overdrive and it's been fantastic. Being able to use the extra buttons to serve different purposes on a per-application basis has been amazing.
I just bought a Logitech Wave keyboard, which is great, but I ended up installing the Logitech Control Center since I couldn't find a way to configure the extra keys and I wanted volume controls, etc via the keyboard. The LCC software took care of this with flying colors, but it seems to also take control of my mouse and replaces the settings I had from USB Overdrive.
Basically what I'm asking is... is it possible to disable the mouse settings in LCC so it only sets up the key configurations on my keyboard? If not... is there some software available similar to USB Overdrive, but instead lets you configure all of the keys on your keyboard?
Since upgrading to Lion I've had the problem with wi fi losing connection and this seems to be common?The Apple support talked me through a change in system config. I'm no expert and not sure if I could repeat if needed.The support desk could not guarantee that this will permanently fix the problem though.
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Mac OS X (10.7.3)
when pushing a config to a device it fails and the client records an error 403 forbidden.
View 1 Replies View Related6/20/12 12:41:28.575 AM org.apache.httpd: Syntax error on line 1 of /private/etc/apache2/users/Nbulkz.conf:
6/20/12 12:41:28.575 AM org.apache.httpd: Invalid command 'Nbulkz/Sites/"', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
The error message above is the one I see in console. I cannot turn on websharing on my osx 10.7 macbook pro. I was able to at one point but my computer froze and upon restart I was not able to access my localhost/~Nbulkz personal webpage. For awhile I was able to turn websharing on and off, but I was not able to access my personal webpage and was given the Error Forbidden 403.
I then turned it off and restarted but now it won't even turn on in the User Interface "Sharing" in system preferences. I see there is a syntax error in the .conf file but I used an Apple Support procedure that had me write that same .conf file so I'm confused about what to try next. I've been using apache 2.2.1, php v. 5.4 and mysql along with php_myadmin. I've already rewrote disk utility permissions.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I keep getting this message the past week when I try to copy/paste text to Pages or upload a picture to a website chat forum. I don't know what it means, or how to correct it. I'm running a 2009 iMac desktop with OSX Lion 10.7.3 with 2 GB?
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iMac desktop, Leopard 2GB
I use to be able to select the vista partition to restart into from the configuration pages in leopard on my macbook pro, but now my bootcamp partition is missing. I have to hold the option button to manually select the windows partition and then load into windows. Some setting somewhere must be lost. Does anyone know how to restore it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI a new to mac. I am trying to open a ".config" file but I get this error message: "There is no default application specified to open the document xxxx". Normally, on a Windows, I would just force open it with notepad as it conly contain text. How do I do the same with a Mac?
View 6 Replies View Relatedmy problem is that on a restart of one of my 10.6.8 Servers parts of the Serveradmin configs are gone while some of them persists. The lost configs are everytime the same: VPN (complete) and iChat (a secondary but very important Host-Domain). Of course a can restore them from a backup but that shouldn't the standard procedure after a restart....
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have seen a few videos about mastering and gave it a try myself. It can be done by clicking the master tab, then going to the Input 1-2 column setting and then clicking setting - mastering, etc.When I first did this a few weeks ago, there were many options such as hip hop mastering, electronic mastering, etc.Now, when I do so, I have different - much less enticing options and have no idea where the good ones went.
I am just wondering why everytime I right click a file then click "Open with.." some Windows programs come up?
I just recently formatted the entire system and haven't even got "VMware" or either Windows installed so I don't know why it's there.
I can control what starts up on my iMac as a means to speed up the load time as in Windows?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently purchased a 2.8 octo Mac Pro that came with a stock 200 Gig HD. I purchased a WD 640 Caviar Blue HD for a boot drive and 3x 1 Tb Samsung Spinpoints for data and backup. When I got the Mac I simply took out the stock drive, put in the WD and did a clean install off the install DVD?s. The machine performs very well when it?s running my apps, like Pro Tools, but it?s sometimes a bit fragile when performing mundane tasks like burning dvd?s while surfing safari f.eks. It tends to freeze up quite a bit. Then I noticed also that the Samsung drives I put in it are a bit unresponsive. i.e. when i move files between folders on the extra Samsungs there is a few seconds of "lag" while before I can open the folders again.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIve just got a Macbook Pro 13", already have an iMac and iPhone.
What is the best way to keep them in sync? Is it possible?
Im using IMAP GMail so this takes care of mail, but what about
Contacts
iCal
iPhoto
iTunes
other things...
If I sync my phone to the new MB would I loose all my music etc?
I guess MobileMe for the first two but not sure about iPhoto/iTunes.
I have called both Apple and ATT to address an inconsistent DSL connection with my iMac. Paying for highest speed available and at times it's blazing fast and other times, it's quicker to go to the library to look up the info!Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if there were any possible solutions to get it more consistent.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a mac osx 10.4.6 and want to watch tv on it Iam having trouble finding tv for usb 1.Iwill be increasing my mem to 512 if i can find something also can i convert it to usb2 as there seem to be more options?
View 1 Replies View RelatedOf all the things I've learned to do on a Mac over the years, and with all the help I've provided here at MR, I still don't know how to do the following:
On a rolled out dialog box like the one shown below, how does one go about selecting something other than the highlighted button (in this case Save...) using the keyboard?
I think Escape usually works to select Cancel, but how would I select Don't Save using the keyboard? Why can't I simply Tab over to it and hit the space bar or Enter?
While we're at it, I'm familiar with taking a screenshot of an entire window (CMD+SHIFT+4 followed by Space) but that doesn't seem to work to take a screenshot of a window + the dialog box, other than the sloppy way I just did?
I understand that this question has been asked a million times but I'm just going to be honest and admitt that I really dont understand all the "lingo".
eSATA, RAID 0, 5, or 10?
What does all this mean to me?
Since I'm starting fresh any advice on the best way for me to build internal storage so that I dont waste my money (spent $6K last night).
