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MacPro Hardware for HD?

I know HES has not officially checked of on the MacPros, but it seems from reading the forums that many of you are using them.
I will be using Catalyst to serve our new DPI Lightning 40HD, and I want to get the best hardware that is available now. Hopefully the hardware will have some future as well.
So MacPro users, is there a difference between 2.0, 2.66 and 3 GHz processors in this application?
What video card are you using?
What Hard Drive configuration are you using?
How much RAM is enough? How much is just wasting money?
Thank you for your help.
Looking forward to joining the Catalyst community.
-Michael
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  • For those who want to use SCSI with the Mac Pro, it is possible. We are using a bracket that fits snuggly inside the extra optical drive bay. Then we route the SCSI cable under the 1st SATA drive connector and out to the SCSI PCI-e controller card. We are most likely going to sell the brackets as an accessory or suggest someone elses. I don't know who makes them. I have tested the the Seagate Cheetah 15k and 10k, comparing them to the raptor 10k SATA. SCSI is till the way to go, offering faster seek times and better multi-layer performance.

    I do not have any information comparing this to any RAID system though. Others would have to add their input on that.
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  • For those who want to use SCSI with the Mac Pro, it is possible. We are using a bracket that fits snuggly inside the extra optical drive bay. Then we route the SCSI cable under the 1st SATA drive connector and out to the SCSI PCI-e controller card. We are most likely going to sell the brackets as an accessory or suggest someone elses. I don't know who makes them. I have tested the the Seagate Cheetah 15k and 10k, comparing them to the raptor 10k SATA. SCSI is till the way to go, offering faster seek times and better multi-layer performance.

    I do not have any information comparing this to any RAID system though. Others would have to add their input on that.
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