Greetings one and all
I am confused in comparing the speeds of WD6001FZWX 6TB Black HDD at 218 MB/s against the WD40E31X Blue SSD at 150 MB/s from WD’s Specification Sheets.
I’ll be buying the last of the great Mac Pro 5.1 Server Towers with dual Xeon 5690 six-core CPUs and infinitely upgradeable with up to 64GB+ RAM, NVIDIA Titan 12GB GPU for 5K graphics, USB 3.0 and four 3.5” HD bays, etc. Knowing me and my pursuit of keeping all my data in 1 place, I’ll probably fill all 4 bays at the same time. I work in Photoshop, CAD and DTP as well as MS Office. As of 2012, Apple specify for their own factory configuration: “1TB or 2TB hard drives, Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 32MB cache.”
So the logic board only supports 3GB/s but I read that in the real world there is only marginal difference against SATA III @ 6GB/s. However, SSDs are universally reported as about 4 times faster, more durable and more expensive. But the 4TB Blue SSD is slower, cheaper and its warranty is 2 years less than the 6TB Black!?
I guess it depends on what the test computers were doing to achieve those transfer rates. Are there any articles on this you can send me links to? There is nothing on the web specifically for WD drives and I only want WD in my Mac Pro.
Many thanks all
Mark G
