User Guide
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*One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes; accessible capacity will be less and actual capacity depends on the operating environment and formatting.
High Performance Internal SSD RAID Array
for Mac Pro
Mac Array
Specications
Box Contents PCIe CCA with WD SSDs,
Apricorn driver CD & RAID
management utilities, manual
Data Transfer Rates SATA II speeds up to 3Gb/s
Interface SATA II
Dimensions 4.8” x 12.28”
Warranty 1 year limited
System Requirements Mac Pro with avail. PCIe X4 slot
Individual drive specs
WD SiliconEdge Blue 128GB MLC SSDs features:
Model number: SSC-D0128SC-2100•
Fast data transfer - up to 250 MB/s read and 170 MB/s •
write per drive
Advanced Wear-Leveling•
Advanced Error Correction•
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)•
Data Integrity Protection•
Ordering info
Ordering Information Apricorn Part Number:
MA-PeDA-S512
Features
PCIe X4 Single board RAID sub-system
Supports RAID (0,1, 5, 10) via Silicon Images SATARaid
™
RAID
management utility
Utilizes Silicon Image Sil3124A Single Chip Host Controller
Supports SATA II speeds up to 3Gb/s
Supports SATA II Native Command Queuing & SATA 1.0
Tagged Command Queuing
Incorporates 4 embedded 2.5” 128GB MLC WD SiliconEdge
Blue solid state drives for total capacity of up to 512GB*
High Performance Software Applications:
Fully compatible with Mac 32-bit systems. Final Cut Pro,
Adobe Premiere, Aperture, Photoshop, Lightroom, iMovie,
iPhoto, ProTools, Sony Vegas, Avid Liquid etc
Target applications:
• Scratch Disks for Design Applications
• Cinema quality video editing
• High resolution image editing and manipulation
• Photo editing and retouching
• CAD/EDA simulation
• Animation rendering
Increase your Mac
Pro’s performance
by up to 10x with
a single Mac
Array or double up
tandem style for a
performance boost
of over 18x