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We are considering replacing our 2010 Mac Pro with a Z840.
FYI, the peripherals we have are:
- Cubix Gen3 Elite Xpander (4x16, 2x8) holding two GTX 980’s, DeckLink 4k Extreme G12 card, ATTO RAID SAS controllers for hard drive chassis and tape drive
- 16-bay hard drive chassis (16x8TB)
- Quantum LTO-6 tape drive
- Eizo ColorEdge 4K monitor
- GUI monitor.
I have configured a Z840 here
https://zworkstations.com/products/z840/
The first pass costs about twice what I hoped for (as always):
Dual Processor - Dual 8-Core 3.2GHz Intel Xeon Broadwell E5-2667 v4 - $7,250
Memory - 256GB (16x 16GB) - $2,950
Primary drive (system, apps) - HP Z Turbo Drive - 2TB - $1,400
Secondary drive (data) - Z Turbo Drive Quad Pro - 3 Drive RAID 0 - 8TB (4x 2TB) - $6,000
Drive Bay 1 - 4TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache Hard Drive - $300
Drive Bay 2 - 4TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache Hard Drive - $300
Optical Drive - Slim DVD Burner - $0
Graphics Card - NVIDIA Quadro GP100 16GB - $5,250
Total - $23,450
The lower cost pass gets the price near target:
Dual Processor - Dual Quad-Core 3.5GHz Intel Xeon Broadwell E5-2637 v4 - $5,250
Memory - 128GB (8x 16GB) - $1,380
Primary drive (system, apps) - HP Z Turbo Drive - 1TB - $800
Secondary drive (data) - Z Turbo Drive Quad Pro - 2 Drive RAID 0 - 4TB (2x 2TB) - $3,200
Drive Bay 1 - 4TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache Hard Drive - $300
Drive Bay 2 - 4TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache Hard Drive - $300
Optical Drive - Slim DVD Burner - $0
Graphics Card - NVIDIA Quadro P5000 16GB - $2,250
Total - $13,480
I’m nervous about the cutbacks, particularly the PCI secondary drive. Our idea is to bring sections of the project from hard drives into the Z840 secondary drive for faster editing, rather than working directly with the files on the rack hard drives. The 8TB secondary drive would make this reasonable, but I'm doubtful if the drive is only 4TB.
Anyway, I appreciate any thoughts about these two options. Specifically, what in the more costly configuration do you see as important?
Thanks for your help!
FYI, the peripherals we have are:
- Cubix Gen3 Elite Xpander (4x16, 2x8) holding two GTX 980’s, DeckLink 4k Extreme G12 card, ATTO RAID SAS controllers for hard drive chassis and tape drive
- 16-bay hard drive chassis (16x8TB)
- Quantum LTO-6 tape drive
- Eizo ColorEdge 4K monitor
- GUI monitor.
I have configured a Z840 here
https://zworkstations.com/products/z840/
The first pass costs about twice what I hoped for (as always):
Dual Processor - Dual 8-Core 3.2GHz Intel Xeon Broadwell E5-2667 v4 - $7,250
Memory - 256GB (16x 16GB) - $2,950
Primary drive (system, apps) - HP Z Turbo Drive - 2TB - $1,400
Secondary drive (data) - Z Turbo Drive Quad Pro - 3 Drive RAID 0 - 8TB (4x 2TB) - $6,000
Drive Bay 1 - 4TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache Hard Drive - $300
Drive Bay 2 - 4TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache Hard Drive - $300
Optical Drive - Slim DVD Burner - $0
Graphics Card - NVIDIA Quadro GP100 16GB - $5,250
Total - $23,450
The lower cost pass gets the price near target:
Dual Processor - Dual Quad-Core 3.5GHz Intel Xeon Broadwell E5-2637 v4 - $5,250
Memory - 128GB (8x 16GB) - $1,380
Primary drive (system, apps) - HP Z Turbo Drive - 1TB - $800
Secondary drive (data) - Z Turbo Drive Quad Pro - 2 Drive RAID 0 - 4TB (2x 2TB) - $3,200
Drive Bay 1 - 4TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache Hard Drive - $300
Drive Bay 2 - 4TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache Hard Drive - $300
Optical Drive - Slim DVD Burner - $0
Graphics Card - NVIDIA Quadro P5000 16GB - $2,250
Total - $13,480
I’m nervous about the cutbacks, particularly the PCI secondary drive. Our idea is to bring sections of the project from hard drives into the Z840 secondary drive for faster editing, rather than working directly with the files on the rack hard drives. The 8TB secondary drive would make this reasonable, but I'm doubtful if the drive is only 4TB.
Anyway, I appreciate any thoughts about these two options. Specifically, what in the more costly configuration do you see as important?
Thanks for your help!