Replacing or adding a hard drive to a Mac Pro tower has always been ridiculously easy: First with the dual G5 model's open extra drive bay with mounting screws at the ready -- It really is just plug and play. Then in subsequent Mac Pros Apple provided 4 drive upgradability -- as easy as just pushing a standard form factor 3.5" SATA drive into the slot. With an affordable ICY DOCK 2.5" to 3.5" case installing a laptop size SSD in a Pro Macintosh takes about 1 minute.


Well, speaking of slots, OCZ threw down the gauntlet this past week by introducing the Z-SERIES PCI-E CARD SSD supporting multi SSD RAID in capacities of 250GB, 500GB and 1TB offering utterly insane data transfer rates peaking at 450Mb/s to 510Mb/s depending on the model. For Apple Mac Pro users, the announced PCI Express solid-state drives OS Compatibility support includes: Windows XP 32/64, Vista 32/64, Windows 7 32/64, and Mac OS X 10 and above. So it's nice to have OCZ officialy state this monster is qualified for Apple computers.

Tags: 3.5" SSD, ssd raid, mac pro ssd, PCI slot ssd