Well, no not really. I’d say they’ve stuck to their current form over function drive. For example:
-No internal PCI-e expansion… okay so I’ll need an external fibrechan card then?!
Yes – but does your fibre have a greater throughput than 40GBit? If not, then what’s the problem?
The problem is needing to have yet another box on the desk, rather than in the PC. I don’t understand your comment on 40gbit? I think the cards we use are 10gbit.
-Fewer RAM slots than the outgoing model
Not really an issue given the size of RAM modules these days
But it limits future upgradability compared to the old one.
-Presumably no RAID protection on the boot SSD
Guess not, but presumably TimeMachine can give you something to rebuild to quickly. Is RAID even needed with SSDs? No moving parts to break, and much faster.
Yes, they die fairly often still. Time machine is good, but it means you have to stop the machine, new drive in, reboot, restore, as opposed to RAID where you can continue running, finish your render etc, even pop a drive in hotswap stylee if the hardware allows it.
Space for 2 PCIe SSDs inside it. Bandwidth-tastic.
I was talking about proper battery backed HW raid like Lenovo & HP workstations have.