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  • umm this has been available on both pc and mac for like ages ... oh ya by the way i have 2tb hdds in raid 0 ... and on my old ass computer i have 2 500gb hdds in raid 0

  • OSX doesn't support RAID 5, so he's using JBOD. Which means his RAID array doesn't get "rebuilt" if he loses a drive. He loses everything.

    Unless he's using the Apple RAID card... but then any computer with a RAID card (or most PC motherboards through software even) can use RAID 5.

  • leave the guy alone, he's from Texas LoL

  • I have my 1200 dollar PC with 4 drives in it also. I have a could have a RAID 5 setup on 3 of the drives. It's not that big of a deal. I think your beef is with M$ vs Apple. For your pleasure I'll play along and tell you why M$ is better. (BTW, Linux FTW).

    M$ service packs do not cost $199.00

    Macs cost far more for the same quality of a PC build

    Very little games are designed for the Macs although they booster it in their ads

    For the longest time two buttons was too complicated

  • Cutting edge software/hardware is for the PC environment

    Apple could not keep up and switched to Intel

    When was the last time someone custom built a MAC?

    "macs cant get viruses" I dont know how many times I've heard that lame line.

    Bottom line? Mac users overpay, do not receive as much in performance, have a limited 90 day warranty, must pay an excessive amount to extend the warranty, are not as versed as a PC user about their computer, and have limited options...should i stop now?

  • I have a hackintosh that can do that

  • This is a raid 5 configuration.

    you're talking like apple invented it.

  • Mac wins! They are the best because they own iMovie and GarageBand and those are the two best programs ever. Windows Movie Maker is the third.

  • This confirms that the best PC for this guy runs MAC lmao! Mac users are so funny..

  • And what's the fucking point? If you "accidentally pull out an internal harddrive"? Seriously, that's just rockbottom.

  • @Owminator that is not the point the point is if he has a hard drive fail he can replace it and still have all his work ... but he is also a idiot because pcs have had this for ages so this was a useless video ...

  • did you used to be a woman?

  • I so want to punch you...

  • You're not rebuilding anything. You have to remount it anyway.

  • That's just because you have a RAID 5 which allows the removal of a drive no matter whether it is a mac or a PC

    Watch 2:30 of watch?v=8ixfto_1Nl8

    P.S. I'm not just some PC fanboy I am in fact using a Mac right now I just wanted to point out the facts

  • Emeek your a fag you get owned left,right,center at least have the Curtice to apologize to the people you call out when your ass gets owned.

  • It's raid 5 not JBOD

  • this guy makes me want to cry... and his accent just makes it worse

    i feel sorry for people down in the south who aren't dumb fucks but tards like this guy give them bad names

    sigh....

  • something called raid 1 will do it so suck my dick

  • ya...um if you pull the hard out while a program is running on it...well you just fucked the drive

  • Question: Are the drives hot-swappable?

    Answer: All hard drives in the Xserve product line are hot-swappable; all hard drives in the Mac Pro product line are not hot-swappable.

  • direct " " from Apple website

  • hot swapping has been around for ages. Jesus Christ you fuckin bitch. You are not even using raid. I dare u to raid 5 those three goddamn Seagate and pull all of the three out and put new western digital or other manufacturer drives (so we know its new and not just the goddamn three drives you pulled out) and see what happens. Dip Shit

  • JBOD is not raid you ignorant fucker. You got owned by adobePC

  • how cute... this is so funny when i watch adobepc's video because you got but raped

  • wtf is on your face? moley moley moley... ugly spot!

  • /watch?v=RdAvoa0Y_b0

  • Yeah, If I try this with anything other than a Mac Pro, the power is shot and the computer shuts down.

    Custom stuff doesn't come with this.

  • nerdsss... -.-

  • what is a raid "slos"?

  • Can't raid 3 lol. but this is something else. Only goes in multiples of 2 because of it's very nature.

  • haha, a gangsta Apple fan? DUMBBB

  • funny at the end when he goes osx. and makes his fingers into an X, lol hes trying to be a gangster FAIL tehe

  • Whats the use of randomly pulling out a HDD?

  • Why are you dressed like a Unabomber terrorist ?

    Hat down over your eyes, and hooded jacket screams "I build bombs..." HAHAHA

  • you failed

  • Not impressed.

  • i love how he makes fun of PCs cause hey are shit

  • @MAChelp32 implying that macs aren't pcs.

  • @fatleader sorry let me clarify. PC isnt Shit its fine, the software it runs is CRAP, but i feel stupid buying a fucking 1500 dollar piece of welded metal and plastic together, i cant upgrade anything, when i could have built on myself for 500, got the OS and installed it my self, i would have spare money to upgrade

  • @MAChelp32 i hate you macnoobs you all blah blah blah asses get a life eSATA is what it is called on this video he doesn't know about it cause macs suck big time.

  • @backtublive STFU AND GTFO

  • @fatleader finaly someone with a brain :D

  • Wow this actually works on my Mac Pro! At first when I tried it I thought my 3TB RAIDs would not mount but when I pulled one out it didn't do anything and rebuilt after I put back in! ; Thanx! :D

  • @kevinwashere12345

    Pulling out one drive in a RAID array and and sticking the same drive back in is not rebuilding a new RAID array. Try pulling out your RAIDed drives and then sticking in 3 totaly different drives. OS X might be able to rebuild a new array but Applessoldier did not do it in this video.

  • hee-haw yall... Yes you can do that on a pc..

  • Is your RAID via Apple's RAID card, some third party card, or just software?

    Personally I'd avoid the hotswap as there are no inrush current limiters on the motherboard - possibility of killing some hardware. At least in the 2009 models.

    Just FYI.

  • Lol, any computer with hardware raid 5 that is hot swappable can do that, it's been around a long time.

  • my 600 dollar pc does that...

  • @BlackflamezzProduct yup.

    so does mine.

  • Wow, why is it that I'm not impressed? Oh, I know, because a 500 dollar PC can also do that.

    Jesus, stop being such a retarded lemming.

  • Thanks for accepting the video response Applesoldier. :)

  • since when AppleSolider admits he was wrong? That he simply didn't make full research of topic and he's bluffing about all this? :)

    he's so funny...

  • you got owned by "adobePC" he can do this better with on of his $600 pc. lmfao.

  • @suprakilla2JZ dude, adobepc has not shawn proof to his computer doing this, the only thing that i know that does this is a drobo.

  • @suprakilla2JZ

    yeah i know putting things in raid means if one fails the other 2 work. as long as you put any computer and pull one out the other 2 will work

  • @suprakilla2JZ Hotswapping SATA on an unmodified Windows install (except Windows Server) will cause the system to hang, even if it's not the boot volume. Hotswapping is supported by Unix-like OSes (like Mac OS X and Linux) by default. I can post a vid of this.

  • Yes u can u can also split 1hdd to make it look like there is 2 hdd

  • cheap ass pc..... mines fuckin 2500 pounds from alienware so shut the fuck up waste

  • There is no point in doing what you did in the video.

    If you left 1 hard disk out for a week and the 1 drive failed in the MAC, you lose all the new data written in the week.

    Or if you put the disk back in and one of the drives fail before the RAID data is rebuilt then you lose all the data that hasnt been updated.

  • So by removing one your just increasing the likliness of losing data, so what your showing is a flaw in OSX, Windows may not let you do thins because its unsafe, and i would certainly never do it even if my OS offered the ability.

  • Anyway, I'm not wasting my time with a 25 year old know-it-all-who-knows-nothing-­at-all. I have better things to do than waste my time with a half-truther and a bullshitter.

    I reign supreme again. Enjoy your substandard, overpriced Mac.

  • I never said I knew it all, And you are clearly are too thick to realise how little you actually know, But since I am talking to a Brick wall, like all PC gamers you just another Cunt that can't see fact over his own stubborn pride.

    Enjoy your old Substandard Harpertown machine mate because you know absolutely nothing about Hardware.

    So don't waste everyones time mate, because I stated fact that is true, and you have stated nothing but bullshit.

  • Hahahaha!  OHHHHHH, name--calling!

    The truth hurts. It's alright. While my computer blows yours out of the water (and will for the next 4 years) yours will be stuttering and suffering on anything except video ripping and encoding.

    Problem is, you paid a stupid amount of cash to rip/encode 2 minutes faster than my machine.

    Meanwhile, my machine does it all. At 60 FPS. With no slowdown. And no lag. And TONS of expandability.

    For a price tag that makes you choke in jealousy. Bye bye!

  • hahahaha yeah your just too thick mate, you didn't even read my comments (or you don't understand them one of the two), you still think your computer is actually good?? I REPEAT one word HARPERTOWN how about you look that up, then look up Nahalem, Secondly lets see your geekbench score. baahahahahahahaha, don;'t worry mate one day some one will show you in real life how much of an idiot you are, and how silly you sound.

    NO PROOF, No Videos posted all you have been telling is utter bullshit

  • Once again I must EDUCATE silly, irrelevant Mac fanboys who don't have a clue what they're talking about. To even SUGGEST that Macs are better at specific things is LUDICROUS. Mac either has equal hardware, or LESSER hardware......not superior hardware....EVER! To even SUGGEST that a Mac computer with a 256MB or 512MB card (designed specifically for gaming, for Christ's sake) are going to outperform an actual, real industrial computer set up to do professional work.

    Silliness to the max.

  • I never said anything about Macs being better at anything. don't put words in my mouth mate.

    Wheither or not you use a Mac or a PC doesn't defer from the fact that both Mac OS and Windows can do the same things, its merely a choice on what product you use. And since you have never used a mac your self you can't compare. AGAIN i repeat Mac's are not designed for gaming, a mac pro is purely for Professional work, and can be used for any field because it can run both windows or Mac OS.

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

    I always love watching Mac videos by Mac fanboys! Unsubstantiated horseshit and half-truths ALWAYS make me belly-laugh!

  • hahahahahahahahahahah

    I always love PC comments by PC Wankers! Absolute cunts that make bullshit comments with out any real useful info to support there own comments.

    Always a pleasure to piss off PC users like you bahahaaahahahaah.

  • Sorry, but I'm not the slightest bit pissed offf.

    That's because I own a machine with 5 times the power of the latest Mac Pro, for 50% LESS than what you'd pay out of Mac fanboy ignorance.

  • Really? care to show us how much you have over clocked it. and Show us your spec's

    I wanna see your Mac Pro replica that you claim to be better than the current 8 core mac pro.

  • @pkerry12

    First off, I have no need to overclock a dual Quad-Core system with the kind of specs that I run, but very well.

    Intel S5000PAL dual socket MB

    Dual E5420 Quad-Cores

    Dual-linked GTX295s (1792 MB per card)

    X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card

    12 GB of RAM (which I plan to inrease)

    2TB hard drive space

    Blu-Ray Drive

    Happy now?

  • Are you kidding me? you have dual E5420 xeons, Harpertown Xeons are old.. Your comparing your 8 core with Dual Nahalem Xeon X5550 8 core with your Harpertown E5420's xeon. HarperTown Xeons don't even have Hyper threading on every core like Nahalem has.

    The only advantage you have over a 2009 8 core Mac Pro is the dual GTX 295 video cards in sli.

    Every thing else the 2009 8 core Mac Pro does better.

    I would be interested to see what you Geekbench score would be.

  • PFFFFFFFFFFfffhahahahahahaha!!­!

    FUNNIEST thing I've heard all day! thanks for the laugh!

    Again, the difference between the Mac Pro and my machine is that my machine slaughters it outright. The Mac Pro BEGINS close to what I paid for my system. Try putting two GTX295s in there and see where things go.

    And while you're at it, up the RAM. Apple assrapes the consumer foolish even to try.

    You're bitching about HYPERTHREADING??? What is this........2001?

    You're ridiculous!

  • and there we have it.. you have no clue what you are talking about

    Heres the difference between your Harpertown 8 core and my Nahelem 8 Core

    when you open up your task manager you see 8 cores

    if I boot up windows and do the same thing I see 16 cores. HyperTheading on EVERY CORE is Latest Tech on Multicore CPUs, and Clearly you don't know this.

    Secondly Mac Pros support 32gb ECC DDR 3 RAM I repeat ECC DDR 3 ram not Standard Home user DDR 3 ram.

    and FYI $1500 AUD gets me 32gb ECC ddr 3 ram.

  • And there we have it..........I have a machine that slaughters the Mac Pro.

    If it wants to keep up, the user has to fork out TONS of cash.

    Face it.....even CNET had to admit that the Mac Pro sucked in games/graphics apps, and was only superior in things like video encoding, etc.

    My machine does it all. Oh...and it's insanely powerful.

    sorry! There's always next Christmas, eh slugger???

  • The mac pro is for Video editing, 3d modeling, Audio editing etc.

    The Mac pro is not a Gaming Machine its a professional workstation.

    And again if you even looked at any of my videos demostrating Call of duty 4 I get 80FPS Maxed out at 2560x1600 res on an GTX 285.

    So I don't know where your getting 30fps from? must be the quad core with the gt 120.

    Again your Xeon processors are old harpertown they are not Nahelem you would not beat a Mac Pro in a CPU test.

    How about you study up old man.

  • And you can do the SAME THING on a PC, my friend! Only difference is, you'll pay MORE for it.

    Anybody who pays gaming-level prices for a non-gaming PC is an idiot. My PC does the same shit as a Mac does, and it's either just as good, or better.

    Photoshop CS4 doesn't even run in 64-Bit mode under Mac yet. That won't be out until CS5.

    As with EVERYTHING, Mac lags behind.

  • So you telling me that coperations that buy $10,000 or $20,000, Servers and Professional workstations are idiots? wow your calling the millions of people in corperations that buy server grade equiptment idiots?? lol thats laughable.

    Server Grade equiptment will always cost more than Gaming rigs.

    A Gamming Machine is built for gammng and that is all its primary purpose is, Professional workstations, are mainly for 3d modeling and video editing Mac pros run a completely native 64 bit platform

  • @pkerry12

    As for Mac Pros......they aren't professional workstations, my friend. The technology in the machines is absolute proof of that.

    Anyone running 3D apps like 3DSMax or Maya relies on real graphics cards to do the work.....not fucking budget gaming cards like GT120s and 9600s that Macs are so fond of! They use FireGL cards, or industry-specific graphic workhorses.

    Once again, you prove your ineptitude. It doesn't matter if the Mac Pro runs in 64-Bit mode. Their Photoshop DOESN'T!

  • lol you run Harpertown Xeons and you think its the latest in Technology... so don't make me laugh you know nothing about what technologies are in the mac pro.

    you do know the Mac Pro uses Quadro video cards right? you can get those and they are professional video cards.

    There are companies that use Macs for CAD and Riviet it may be on windows but its still mac hardware.

  • Actually, wait, I'll do it for you.

    For the Mac Pro to match my specs (without GFX cards) you're looking at $3950 CDN, and that's WITHOUT taxes. Now go out and buy two GTX295's, and that'll run the Mac user about $1400.....WITHOUT Tax. Grand total?

    $5700 with taxes in.

    My machine TRUMPS it three times over for $4500

    You're motherfucked.

  • What you don't understand if your is old techology on an old Archtechture Harpertown.

    you pay more for Nahelem Xeon processors its just how it is newer technology costs more.

    The only way you can match an 2009 8 core Mac pro is if you have the Same Nahelem Xeon X5550 cpus (which you don't)

    Again the only thing that is better is the dual gtx 295s on your PC.

  • Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand the machine can't even get past 30 FPS in Call of Duty 4, and blew when it came to graphics apps.

    NEXT!

  • Seriously, just end it. You're bringing a butterknife to a machine gun fight. You can't win. I'm going to leave you to your delusions, whilst I enjoy what is obviously the most POWERFUL computer out of the two contestants we're arguing about.

    Actually, there's no argument. Silly me! I just have the more powerful system! *Sigh*...the things I must learn to live with

  • Mate you have no clue, and the funny thing is your too thick to realise, read my comments do your research. and you will see how silly you sound.

    I am stating pure fact I have system test videos of my mac pro, to proove it. you need to do some benchmarking and you will see just how much power you have in your computer.

    Again the only power you have is your 2 gtx 285s. nothing else in your system is any good. in comparison to a 8 core 2009 mac pro.

  • By the way, i was an Art Director for one of Canada's biggest promotions companies for 8 years.

    I'm now working in the Laser field, where there is NO Mac integration whatsoever, and this is a highly advanced field.

    You're talking to a professional with years of experience. Cased closed. You lose.

  • ok? thank you for that completely random fact of your being an Art director, that just tells me you have nothing to do with IT and have never worked in IT, that explains a lot then....

    Now let me take you to school old man, your talking to a Developer that has programmed on Windows platforms for 6 years, and you as an Art director don't know squat about IT. All your doing is regurgitating info that some guy must have told you, because at the moment your are not wowing me with anything.

  • @pkerry12

    Unfortunately, I've been programming since I was age 8, and building my own systems since I was 14.

    When you can install Windows and have it run FLAWLESSLY without so much as a hiccup in the RAM for the last 14 years, then come talk to me, okay boy?

    One doesn't need to be in the IT field to have full working knowledge of computers and Windows. Knowledge is something you acquire by researching.

    Comes with the territory of being SMART, Mac boy. Grasp the concept.

  • right then you should know that people do pay 10,000 to 20,000 even more for server grade equiptment. coming from the 80s using, "Basic" you should know that back then server grade equiptment was even more 30k plus.

    Its amazing you have done all this as an ART DIRECTOR. only an idiot would make a statement saying they can make windows run Flawlessly. Show a video of you doing it,.Unless you have IT qualifications and have worked in the IT industry you know basic knowledge

  • wow that's such a lod computor i never hear my liquid cooling man?

    oh wait mac doesn't need liquid c0ooling except they chose to use the same fans that 360 uses .

    shit crappy tech inside the mac.

  • RAID 1, RAID 0, RAID 10, JBOD

    Windows supports that, although it doesn't rebuild on the fly, you do that manually.

    There's also RAID 5 on Windows, and Matrix RAID, which is awesome.

    "RAID JBOD"

    Hahaohwow.

  • at least this video isn't worse than "Can you do this on a PC?" video. its people like "AppleSoldier" that make mac users look bad. Just looking at his username shows that he's a fanboy--a person that nobody likes.

  • btw he's doing a hot swappable, but when it goes back it's no longer in a raid,

    he's a fucking retard

  • I hope that this is not JBOD.

  • Of course pc can do it... There's only limits for Mac hardwares and never limits for pc hardwares... Good try troll.

  • im sorry applesoldier but a full tower alienware which is the most powerfull computer in the world has 10 hot swappable raid drives, 10terabites so sorry you fail every pc thats not mac can do it fail

  • Why the eff would you need 10 terabites???? Unless you watch and download alot of porn, movies, music, and a hell lot of programs and also a whole lot of other shit. And then you realize you only wasted 1 terabite. That's wasted money right there.

  • @knightmare711

    well not exactly, game library, porn library, back up hard drive (s)

    more hard drives for bragging rights and 1 just to sit there are rust?

    see i'd make great use of it XD

    also its faster memory access

  • A retard like AppleSoldier of course. He needs to wank off to one of his disks before he actually uses OSX.

  • JBOD is not the same as RAID...

    If you even attempted that on RAID you would lose all of your data on all disks. Ignorant shit.

  • Btw.

    If you're using JBOD, Applesoldier.....

    Do you actually realize that JBOD isn't RAID at all?

    And if one of your drives fail, you'll actually lose all the data stored on that "RAID".

  • Hard Drave raid slats Raid slats. Now that I laugh... Is the data built on the raid not available now? Because every files were split into the 3 hard drive to faster access... so remove one, u remove 1/3 of ur file... Maybe Im wrong, im not a Computer expert ^^

  • AHAH Your texas accent is SO FUNNY AHAHAHA

  • >implying linux and windows can't do this

    Dohohohohoho,

    emeek, you're a fucking moron about computers!

  • ITV: ignorance about computers

  • Taking out RAID drive like that is called a hot swap and you can do it on any PC that has a H/W or Software RAID controller.

    Custom servers are using a thing called Hot Swap rack for loads of HDDs

    PS: are you ignorant and stupid on purpose ?

  • He did not actually hot swap anything. I am sure the Mac Pro and OS X can but watch my video to see a true hot swap.

    I am sure the OS X can do it folks but so can a cheap $600.00 PC. Applesoldeir just refuses to post my video response because he gets owned big time.

  • your the one who blocked him so why should he accept your video response?

  • No dude, Applesoldier blocks my video responses and that is why I have blocked him. The block will end friday. Has had blocked my video for mothns. He only let a few slip by. He will edit the crap out of my videoe and then let it pass rather than passing them all. He is the coward, not me.

  • your video response is right there the 3ed one?

  • Cool!

    I stated I unblocked applesoldier since he is starting to let my video responses get posted.

    Macward will be unblocked Friday. I was hoping macward would change but that is not going to happen folks.

  • How much was your mac pro bc i dont know if it was the quad or 8 core and how much did you put into your Mac Pro?

  • You can add this feature to most PCs for at most $120 even if they don't have it. But it costs $700 on a MAC Pro. See My vid for how to.

  • dam your macpro sounds loud and hot swapping is int something new ive seen cheap as hp computers swap

  • lol this was lameee why fuck would you want to take your harddrive out like that in the first place ?

    and by the way MACS ARE PC DUMB FUCK

  • Why would I need to hot-swap hard drives in a workstation? I mainly use laptops, but at my main PC workstation. If something went wrong with a part, I'd shut it off. Why keep it running? It's not like a workstation should provide services to other users on a network.

    On a server, I can see that. But why would you want to use a Mac Pro as a server? I think both Windows Server and Linux are better suited to most tasks for the price. And you can use the extra money for other stuff.

  • What is this retard talking about?, most work stations (Mac Pro counterparts) can do this, and yes, it requieres additional hardware. In the PC world, options are vast and when we usually do that with servers, not workstations although you can do it, even install a raid controller on your "basic" PC and do it. iMac (counter part for the 1000 dollars PC) can't even use RAID, don't even have SSD options neither to compensate...

  • *Sighs* He's talking about the idiots who bash him with Consumer grade custom builds being better than Mac Pros not other work stations

  • Watch my newest video folks. My cheap PC can hot swap and do it even better than the Mac Pro.

  • Any way, this guy is a total ignorant and what I dislike is that there is people who believes his lies with closed eyes. Don't be one of them HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 PCI Express SATA II Controller Card this card cost less than 150 dollars, can do the same stuff he is showing on his video and supports all features he is talking about. How much will it cost to add that to a stock Mac Pro? 600+?

  • is that raid 1?

  • I don't appreciate the offensive material in the beginning of the video. And you're using raid 5, this allows for a hdd to become corrupt and a raid to still work. This has been done on pc/servers for quite some time. There is no difference between a pc and a mac other than an os.

  • @ Applesoldier:

    Do you have a RAID-card, or do you use software RAID in OS X?

    If you use the software RAID, I've got a challenge....

    I'll build a Custom i7, matching the specs of the Mac Pro (exept number of FW800 ports) for under $1000.

    And if it benchmarks the same as the current Mac Pro Quad (base-model for $2499) AND it can do the same thing you did in this vid, you have to make a vid where you say what I tell you to say.

    Just need some cash, and then I'm up for it if you are. :)

  • Additional info:

    It will have optical out, but not optical in. And not Mini-displayport either.

    But otherwise it will match GPU, HDD, USB-ports etc etc.

    And the $1000 only includes one HDD, like the $2499 Mac Pro.

    Extra drives for the RAID is extra for both systems.

  • professionals see the value of this design, idiots playing Halo 3 don't.

    Windows users are morons who waste money on graphics cards so they can play some shooter game until their last brain cell finally gives out. Then they get hauled off to the insane asylum.

  • do all Windows users meet this description? are all Mac users professionals?

  • I'm a Windows user. I mainly do support for other clients.

    In my limited spare time using a PC, I am currently learning Perl.

    PC gamers are a small group of Windows users, just as Mac fanboys who worship Steve Jobs are not a very big segment of the Mac market. Unfortunately, it is the fanboys who have to be unprofessional and make most Mac people look stupid.

  • Dude I'm high

  • Seriously I would be embarrassed to own a mac knowing that this douche owns one. How about you just use your mac instead of using it as a tool to compare against pc's.

  • @FireForFreezing yah I mean seriously I mean I love watching this guy and I am a mac fan but I mean just use the damn computer for whatever you like, be it gaming, video, 3-d, audio, porn, etc, etc, etc... I mean yah macs are better and shit but I'm so over the whole fuckin' battle blah blah blah better better blah. Fuck, who cares.

  • Yeah im sick of the little battle. People like this are whats wrong with the community

  • so what??hahaha... yeah,, small advantages because its useless,,,,,

  • Fucking hell get a life. Theres more to life that comparing PC's and Macs. Jesus. Get off my internets

  • That is probably the LEAST USEFUL feature of a mac computer. Seriously, I see the advantages of owning a computer like that but "hot swappable raid"? How often would you use this? Adding a feature like this when writing drivers for the OS would only increase the complexity of the programming AND allow the possibility for more bugs.

  • omg emeek RAID IS RAID why do you thing the corsair obsidion 800 case HAS HOT SWAPPABLE BAYS BUILD IN if i had 3 hdds i would prove it to you but i dont so yea =P

  • You're a child.

  • Its still a PC.... just it has MAC OS on it instead of Windows.

  • A Mac Pro need a RAID card upgrade in order to do hardware RAID. Watch my video or just check the Apple website. In this video we can't see if Eric has a RAID card of not. If he doesn't then we know it's just software raid vice hardware raid which a workstation level mobo should have from the get go. Apple is the only major OEM that charges $700 just to have any level of hardware raid-WTF.

  • You don't need the RAID card with the Mac Pro if you just want RAID 0/1. Obviously, if you want a sophisticated array (RAID 5, 10), you will need the RAID card, since the parity calculations aren't offloaded to the processor (which would affect reliability.)

  • Iam a PC user and i must admit thats a nice feature...although it doesent justify the price for the average consumer!

  • Your PC can do it if you get the hard drives.

  • It's not an average consumer workstation. It is for professionals

  • My cheap $600.00 PC can hot swap drives. Watch my latest video.

  • Mac's are nice and work fine just as well as a PC but they are overpriced for what they are and you all know it. If you like them and don't mind paying twice as much then fine but the other 90% of the world cant be wrong. They are the most used in all areas and it will never change no matter how much you Mac fanboys shout about it. So do sumink better with your time instead of making pointless video's trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

  • Assholesoldier pulled out the drive and slid it back in. That is not hot swapping since he did not actualy insert more drives in place of the ones he pulled out. What good would hot swapping be if you can only pull out the drive that is already in there an put it back in? I will do an ownage video soon.

  • right, but if he replaced it with an empty drive, the array would automatically rebuild. onboard RAID controllers won't do this - you'd have to reboot and do it through the storage manager.

  • If his RAID system has 3 drives striped in a 0 RAID configuration and one drive went bad he could not rebuild it. That is the risk of a striped RAID set up. He has 3 drives so he could not stripe two and mirror two. His sytem is not rebuilding the RAID in this video. Applesoldier is an idiot and I will prove it.

  • "RAID 0" isn't RAID. You can do RAID 5 with three disks, and if only one dies, you can rebuild the array by replacing the failed disk.

  • RAID 0 is a type of RAID aray although there is no data reduntancy. Video editor use it for the performance gain. I have used a striped RAID system at times but I am not using one at the moment.

  • RAID means "redundant array of independent disks" - RAID 0 has no redundancy - if one disk fails, the array fails, and therefore it isn't a true RAID level.

  • You just repeated what I said dude. It does not have data redundtancy but it does span data over several drives hence forth it is considered a type of RAID array. What else would you call it?

  • NRAID (non-redundant array of independent disks) :)

  • i saw he blocked poor kid.....

  • "Naw I wænt ju to Reiid Thys Threy Together"

    "they broke his jaw" > "DeBroki jaw" > "DBrojija" > "Bukedu!"

  • It's funny to people saying pc's can't do this when they are paying out the kaboom for a mac.

    my school had over 50 G5's, so fricking expensive. I could build a computer with 2 quad cores for way less.

    Fact : I can build any pc that will be faster for less money than a mac.

    I like apples for the most part but they charge double what they are worth. I am not just going to throw money aways because they are pretty.

  • Fact: You can build a PC that will get slower than a Mac in a month time if used extensively, plus it will be extremely vulnerable to malware and very unstable. You get what you pay for.

  • or you can just run a half-decent AV and avoid pretty much everything you'd be realistically exposed to.

    you really don't know how to use a computer if Windows is unstable for you (or you just buy shit hardware)

  • If you get crap you don't know how to use a computer.

    I have been using win7 since RC release and loving every moment of it.

    Beautiful OS...

    I build my own comps so stability has never been an issue since XP. If you do have problems then education on the subject might be in order.

  • Except that there isn't really any good av anymore nowadays.

    Actually, Windows is unstable for me BECAUSE I know how to use a computer, extensively. All of you who don't agree with that just don't know a fuck about Windows at ALL

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  • what amazing things do you do that make it so unstable?

    if you're so knowledgeable, why can't you mitigate these problems like the rest of us, who do know how to use a computer?

  • Fact: emperiordumbass just spouts bullshit about Windows.

  • Our servers do this, and as someone else has pointed out I thought that SATA was hot swappable anyway. I have 6 configured at work in a 3.7TB RAID configuration. This is old news Eric, Servers are PCs and these have been doing this for YEARS. Sorry...no smiley this time :(

  • Any SATA drive can be hot swapped.

    LOL, learn how computers work before posting misinformation.

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  • lol, why would you like a company who rips you off. Sorry but anyone who owns a mac does not know how to build, or what pieces of a pc cost.

    LOL mac are twice as expensive for half as much power.

    BTW, windows 7 is the shizzle.

    lol, and BTW you can do this with any SATA drive. LOL noob

  • Excuse me?

    There are plenty of Mac owners that know how to put a PC together. It isn't an accomplishment. Tab A into Slot B.

  • It's called raid 5 and any computer can do it, be it Mac, PC or Lunix. Granted raid 5 is a luxury and you would need a decent raid card for a PC to do (some Motherboards have it integrated) yes it is a feature you get with a $2500 machine, but it can be done for less. It's not a defining feature of the Mac Pro

  • AHCI, coupled with sata hdd's provide hot swappable raid enviroment in a 300$ system. Only difference from h/w raid controller is that it doesn't autobuild (big deal).So to answer your question. YES IT DOES, OUT OF THE BOX

  • the thing is, all apple users think that they are superior towards PC users... although Microsoft has a LOT more money than Apple, and the population of the world generally have PC's over Mac. So shut up you stupid apple fanboy...