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		brusch on Oct 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mac Pros, Ara, and Modularity But if they were professionals didn't they use SAN (or at least NAS) for this ? Don't get USB hard disks old pretty quick ? (and the performance with GByte LAN is much bigger). So it's just a single LAN cable ?

simonh on Oct 31, 2013 [–]

I suppose it depends whether you consider Pro and Enterprise to be synonymous. I don't think they are.

Anyway, what kind of high end Mac user ever bothered with USB drives, when you could use Firewire and have double the throughput with no CPU overhead?

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