- Today we are doing a Mac Pro upgrade,
and this is something that really,
to be completely honest with you,
my Mac Pro really doesn't need this upgrade,
but since I can do it I'm going to.
One of the highlights of the Mac Pro originally was
this is something that is built for the future.
There's so many different things that you can install
to upgrade this computer that it's a little bit overwhelming
so we're gonna start very simply with 1.5 terabytes of RAM
and a new 8 terabyte solid state RAIN drive.
In addition to some internal upgrades we also have
the Mac Pro wheels.
I know a lot of you guys were making fun of me,
and people who buy these on twitter,
but I really wanted to check them out,
and I thought that these wheels really needed
a proper review.
Also that Mac Pro is heavy we do move it around a lot
in the studio especially for shoots like this,
so if I'm able to wheel that thing from my office
into here I don't know...
I think it's worth the $800.
So huge thank you to OWC.
macsales.com is a website that I've actually been using
since I was too young to even order things on the internet.
I'm just thinking of childhood Justine right now
because I used to ask for RAM and hard drive upgrades
for my birthday and Christmas,
and this is where my dad used to get it from,
so this is kind of crazy that this is all coming around
full circle.
Adult Justine is also very excited.
I'll put a link in the description if you want to
check out OWC.
They have so many different upgrades they also have
this incredible 8 terabyte solid state drive
that I have been using for editing everything recently.
The best thing about it is,
going through them you're going to be saving so much
money on different upgrades like RAM and drives,
as opposed to directly through Apple.
I ran out of space when I was editing the
8k Mac Pro unboxing so Johnathan actually told me
about this Thunderblade drive,
and it has completely changed everything.
They have a bunch of different sizes,
so I will also put that in the description as well.
This is the Accelsior 4M2 8 terabyte solid state drive,
and I just looked at their website,
they have one of these that goes up to 16 terabytes.
This looks like something that I get my sushi in,
but there's 1.5 terabytes of RAM.
Oh my gosh this is beautiful.
Before we start upgrading let's open these wheels.
This is heavy!
This is very very heavy.
(gasping)
I don't have my scale over here actually I do,
let's weigh it.
I'm gonna say at least 8 and a half pounds.
Well clearly I'm a really bad judge of weight,
it's 5.3.
It's heavy it's heavy it feels heavy.
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Whoa look how cool that looks.
Here's our tool for installation.
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Guess we'll find out.
So these are not normal pasture wheels,
this is industrial designed perfection,
and I'm not just saying that because I'm an Apple sheep.
These are beautiful.
Whoa that is a smooth ride.
I can't wait to install these this is gonna be great.
(dog barking)
Looks like we've got everything ready,
time for the upgrade.
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Upgrading the Mac Pro was even easier
than I originally thought.
All I had to do was unscrew these screws,
remove the face plate,
and pop in our drive,
replace the screws and the faceplate,
and that was it.
And moving on to 1.5 terabytes of RAM,
these face plates popped right off giving you access
to add or remove RAM,
and in this case we are adding 1.5 terabytes.
Mac Pro can use either rdimm or lrdimm,
but they can't be combined.
So lrdimm modules must be all the same size,
it's also worth noting that only the 24 core
and 28 core Mac Pros have the ability to be expanded
to 1.5 terabytes.
I'm also officially available for hire to edit
and do any special effects for the next Star Wars movie.
I'm here just tweet me.
Got the solid state drive installed got the RAM installed
and I was just about to install the wheels.
I've got my little bit that they included,
and I'm reading the directions and I get to number 8,
it says:
"use a flexible screw driver with this bit,"
that comes with the wheels.
Guess what I don't have?
Guess what I didn't even know was something that existed.
So now I need to find a flexible screwdriver,
or some other solution to try to get these legs off,
and I will continue this video.
So Home Depot has curbside pickup,
so I basically just have to drive up,
call them and they will give me my screwdriver.
- That's good because the - There's so many people.
- The line's probably really long it's the weekend.
- Everybody must need a flexible screwdriver.
(mumbling) - Yes thank you appreciate it.
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so now that we have the tools that we need
to install the wheels it's really really simple.
I have my directions over here and basically,
there's a screw that is inside of these legs,
unscrew it,
pop off the legs and put on the wheels.
This is super flexible I hope this works
because I don't even know.
Okay we're in we're in.
Guess what it's working.
There's two little prongs that help you
guide this into the end here.
You put those two little pins into the slots,
and we are off to the races.
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I feel like I'm on an episode of Home Improvement,
I feel like MacGyver,
I feel like the Property Brothers
just finished building their latest house
and doing some interior decorating.
I feel like Martha Stewart not in jail.
I am out of examples of who I could possibly be.
We have three more to go.
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That's it yes that's done.
Now I'm gonna lift it up put that top on,
take it for a spin.
Wow look at that beauty turn.
My whole life has brought me to this point right now.
And I could not be happier.
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Oh gosh I'm so scared.
- ♪ They see me rollin' they hatin' ♪
- Now we roll this thing in style to my office.
All right little Mac let's go.
(squealing)
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This is so worth it.
Back to your home.
I don't wanna talk about my cable management,
it's really not good but I'll work on it later.
Let's plug this guy back in and check out our upgrades.
Everything is set up,
I would say this is the first time I'm booting this up,
but since I had a day between shooting this video,
I did actually already boot this up
and verify that everything works properly.
So you guys can see here,
we have the 1.5 terabytes of memory all twelve slots.
You guys can see here we popped in the solid state drive.
So this here is the software that these drives use,
it's called SoftRAID.
These are the two drives that I have,
this is the one that we just installed.
There are no errors.
You can also go here and you can set it
to be optimized for work station server,
digital video,
digital audio,
or photography,
and my Postmates just arrived which is really great news.
But inside here if one of your drives does fail,
this will hopefully allow you to not lose any data at all.
I do need to figure this out because it says
that there is an IO error on one of my drives.
So go in here and all of this stuff copied very quickly,
this is all the stuff that I shot
over the past couple of days.
We've got our iPhone SE video,
we've got the Mac Pro Upgrade which you're watching now.
Normally I only edit off of an external drive,
but since I've been home a lot more
I have completely filled up all of the space on my computer.
So being able to have this 8 terabyte internal
is gonna make a huge difference.
What I usually do is I'll edit off of either
an external drive or on the computer and then I save all of
my files to the Jellyfish server.
What's great though about the Jellyfish server,
is when I would have multiple people working on a project,
we would be able to work directly off of the server,
but since I've just been bored in the house
and in the house bored and working alone
we figured out a really great way to do remote work
using this app called Postlab.
I'm going to be making a full video about that
if you haven't seen it already.
But it's been incredible because I've been able
to edit with Jenna and Tyler,
and we can be working off of the same final cut library.
So if you are doing remote work and looking for
a final cut solution this is amazing
and you have to check it out.
But in the mean time I'm incredible happy with my upgrades,
I know this is definitely something that for what
I'm usually editing it's definitely overkill,
I am well aware of that,
but man this is gonna make 8k editing so seamless.
So now that means maybe a camera upgrade is in order.
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