The Late 2016 MacBook Pro, USB C MacBook, or Touchbar MacBook Pro (all names for same mode) does not have any upgradable internal storage but that does not mean you cannot add external storage. The Mac Pro Late 2013 was released built around 4 main CPU configurations, a quad core 3.7GHz, a 6 Core 3.5GHz, an 8 core 3.0GHz and a 12 core Internally the Mac Pro has a single PCIe attached SSD. Below are the upgrades we have available for this internal drive. Larger amounts of storage.

Hi all, I just got a Mac Pro 2013 6 core with the 500gb ssd and looking for advice how to best setup external storage for fast access and secure backup. Paint program online for mac. Primary use will be Photoshop (large files) with some video editing in FCP.

What I am looking for is: a: A working drive for current project files, looking for read / write speeds in the 700's or higher. (After a project is finished it will be archived on a NAS) b: Backup drive of the working drive above. C: Timemachine backup of Mac Pro's internal drive One of the options I looked at for the working drive is the Lacie little big disk thunderbolt 2. It seems extremely fast but quite pricy for the amount of storage?

Another option is raid storage with hard drives or ssd's, for example one of Promise solutions or the OWC Thunderbay 4. This could either be setup as raid 0 with an additional backup connected or raid 5 for slower speeds but redundancy. Are there other raid options out there that would be more suitable / better / cheaper? My boot drive on my old mac pro is on a 250 ssd and is almost completely full so I don't think the 500gb internal pcie ssd would be big enough to host project files, unless the system would get slimmed down by moving home folders and mail boxes externally?

Any advice much appreciated! I think you'll struggle to get 700MByte/s with mechanical drives. You would need to write data across approx 4x 7200-rpm drives or 6x 5400-rpm drives simultaneously and so to get resiliency you would need 8-12 drives in total. If those speeds are a must, you could look at two SATA-III AHCI SSDs in RAID-0, or a single PCI-E NVMe SSD with no RAID or though two of these in RAID-1 would give you some resiliency. Both of these solutions require thunderbolt and are going to cost you if you need over 1TB of storage. If space is more important than speed then seagate do a 4TB bus-powered USB3.0 drive (Backup Plus Fast) which has speeds of about 220MByte/s. Coding programs for mac free. It's two slim 2TB 5400-rpm M9T's in RAID0 which give you the performance.

This is what I would use as a backup drive on a desktop; since a backup finishes when it's finished. As long as it doesn't take so long to finish an incremental backup that it has to pause the next one you should be fine! Hope this helps a bit Jonny. Hi all, I just got a Mac Pro 2013 6 core with the 500gb ssd and looking for advice how to best setup external storage for fast access and secure backup. Primary use will be Photoshop (large files) with some video editing in FCP. What I am looking for is: a: A working drive for current project files, looking for read / write speeds in the 700's or higher. (After a project is finished it will be archived on a NAS) b: Backup drive of the working drive above.

C: Timemachine backup of Mac Pro's internal drive One of the options I looked at for the working drive is the Lacie little big disk thunderbolt 2. It seems extremely fast but quite pricy for the amount of storage? Another option is raid storage with hard drives or ssd's, for example one of Promise solutions or the OWC Thunderbay 4. This could either be setup as raid 0 with an additional backup connected or raid 5 for slower speeds but redundancy. Are there other raid options out there that would be more suitable / better / cheaper?

My boot drive on my old mac pro is on a 250 ssd and is almost completely full so I don't think the 500gb internal pcie ssd would be big enough to host project files, unless the system would get slimmed down by moving home folders and mail boxes externally? Any advice much appreciated! Click to expand.First of all, shame on you for not getting the 1GB internal SSD. Seriously though, that was not a wise option to forgo given your requirements here.