What are the storage capabilities of the new Mac Pro?

Question

In what ways does the new Mac Pro’s speed and storage measure up to other alternatives?

Answer 1

Now it is possible to achieve up to 8TB of internal storage with read or write speeds being in the range of 6-7 thousand MB per sec with the new Mac Pro. But that is not all as it also has PCI slots which enable the installation of focused SSDs like the OWC 8M2 PCI SSD which has a massive capacity of usable storage amounting to 64 TB and read and write speeds of 25000 MB per sec. Such a storage capacity as well as such a speed would suffice professionals who require high storage and high speed for their trade such as video editors and creators.

Comments

Love the MacPro - I have used the older G3’s, G4’s and G5’s but with the current lineup I finally do not need the Apple Silicone MacPro - it feels quite weird to not see a tower in the space. Although it would be nice to use and I do like some of the expansion cards available, but the cost and the speed of the studio make it a better fit. I know some colleagues would prefer the MacPro just for the expanded internal storage as having a dedicated external array is an issue when on location - having it all in one case makes for less carry and worry. Thanks for your continued coverage - enjoy the channel and your frank assessments.

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That 64TB expansion (11k £ ) is pretty good, you pay a few grand more than buying storage separately, but it's faster and more convenient. I'd say its a great business expense.

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When you showed us the 64TB SSD module, I thought you were going to say you were going to fill up all 6 PCIE slots with them for a total of 392TB of storage (assuming you maxed out the internal storage at 8TB)  that would be mad . To be fair 64TB at that speed is insane!

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8 TB cost 2.5 grand extra in the studio. so you could justify getting the pro by getting better storage for less extra money, if you had any other use case. also can't expand later with the studio. It's still ridiculously expensive tho.

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Hey! I was wondering, have you experienced any "disk ejected" messages when waking from sleep, with either the M2 mac pro, or the intel version when using pcie expansion cards for storage?

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I hope to see comparisons with the HP Z8 Fury G5. That one allows up to four high end graphics cards and up to 3 terabytes of RAM.

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In the spirit of this content, I thought I’d ask: I know you say that the storage situation is a use case (which it totally is), but I would be really interested to know how much this makes sense from a cost, reliability, redundancy perspective. By the time you’ve upgraded from the Mac Studio, bought the first (and presumably not the last) storage card, doesn’t it just get to the point where an upgraded network attached storage option would be the right way forward?