#MAC PRO 5.1 YEAR UPDATE#
#MAC PRO 5.1 YEAR MAC#

Apparently, under OS 10.6.x, the 6TB HGST NAS drives work fine in the 2010 5,1 Mac Pro. and I'm open to any other advice if anyone has some!Įdit: I was just reading this thread ( ) more thoroughly. (But, i've used NAS drives in the past, with no issues.) This kinda sucks. these are labeled as NAS drives, so I guess their firmware may not be suited for internal use. I'm guessing I just got the wrong drives. strange too - I thought the option-key was a really good idea! That could give it time to spin up ( ).Īnother delaying tactic: 'if I boot into Single User mode (holding down Command+S during boot), then wait until all messages have completed, then hit Ctrl+D to continue the boot, /Volumes/RAID6-11TB is properly mounted as intended.' (. Not ideal, but if you are only rebooting occasionally, you could try holding the option key and then waiting a few seconds before choosing a boot drive. if anyone has any advice on the 6TB HGST not mounting, I'd appreciate any input. Do any of you have any experience with Tinkertool System and/or Cocktail? Before I make another mistake, I'd like to figure out if this will help or hurt the system.Īlso. At the very end of thread that I linked, someone mentions using Tinkertool System to automatically mount the drives before login, and then using Cocktail to delay startup by 20 to 30 seconds. After discussions with Apple and HGST, no one expects any updates that would fix this issue. so, on a reboot, they are too slow to mount. The basic gist of that thread is that the SSD boots so quickly, and the 6TB HGST HDDs require a little more time to spin up. Turns out, I didn't do my research very well, and this has been documented before: Cold start boot - everything is fine again. Rebooted the computer - the 6TB HGST HDDs wouldn't mount. Booted the computer, everything worked great. I installed an SSD for the boot drive, and a couple 6TB HGST for data and backup. When it worked.I'm doing some updates/upgrades to my wife's mid-2010 Mac Pro (5,1). This 2018 MacBook Pro has been beautiful and fast. But I’m here to report my own experience, and that’s worth doing. Do I think all these anecdotes constitute iron-clad engineering data? No. I heard you.Īnd so, I admit, my perspective has changed in a very tangible way. You all wrote me in article comments about that. A MacBook Pro that maxes out at 16 GB RAM isn’t a “pro” machine. The best HP notebooks have been a little thicker, clunkier, better cooled, but they featured 32 GB RAM. This thin design also forced previous generations of MacBook Pros into using LPDDR RAM memory, which maxed out at 16 GB. But the MacBook Pro chassis is still too thin to properly cool a powerful chip like the Intel Core i9.

#MAC PRO 5.1 YEAR UPDATE#

But there’s more from the BI article.īack when Apple introduced a MacBook Pro that ran on Intel’s powerful Core i9 chips in 2018, it was discovered that the laptop didn’t have the proper cooling systems to keep the chip cool during workloads….Īpple addressed the issue with a software update fix, and the problem was improved. (Where have we heard this notion before? 2013 Mac Pro.) Hence the Butterfly design. Make the case too thin, and you take away the design freedom of the keyboard engineers and force them into an engineering corner. I mentioned that notion on a recent TDO podcast without having seen Gruber’s writings. Recently, Apple blogger John Gruber blamed departing Apple designer Jony Ive for the keyboard issues on recent MacBook Pro, saying it was Ive’s obsession with making thin devices that led to a poorly designed keyboard. Just today, I read this: “ Apple’s latest laptops are the worst the company has ever made for 4 major reasons.” Some of the arguments therein that one normally would dismiss start to make a little more sense.

I’m sure there are a few that get quietly fixed because the customer doesn’t get vocal. I’ve read a lot about MacBook Pro keyboard issues, but not port failures. That means the soldered-in SSD will be also be replaced, and we’ll have to restore from a backup to a new SSD. This Mac is going in for repair, (under warranty) and I’m sure the motherboard will be replaced. An external keyboard will work for an hour, then just quit. External disk drives and SSDs take 20 minutes to mount, then disappear randomly. But now I’m in a position to nod approvingly when customers complain about MacBook Pro keyboard issues (and other problems) because a 2018 MacBook Pro in my family has totally failed, a few months after purchase, via the USB-C ports.

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