Apricorn have just unveiled their latest innovation to increase your Mac Pro’s speed by upto 10 times, using their High Performance Internal SSD RAID Array for Mac Pro.
The new SSD Array easily installs itself into a spare PCIe x4 slot ha is equipped with four high performance WD SSDs providing a grand total of 512GB. That can reduce video render times by up to 80% and increase image processing performance by 360%, some impressive statistics.
The Array has been put through some tough real life test and using Photoshop v.12 to open, rotate 180, adjust Auto Levels and save as a Photoshop document a 924MB TIFF photo the Mac Array showed performance increases of 360% over a traditional 7200RPM SATA hard drive. Decreasing the required time from 10:45 minutes to just 3 minutes.
The Mac Array comes pre-configured with the Mac BIOS and RAID 0 (striping) for maximum performance. So if you are into high end video editing or just fancy increasing the Mac Pro power considerably. You can now purchase the with 4 x 126GB SSD (512GB) for $1499.
Via Slash Gear
Filed Under: Apple, Hardware