This has been a trusted and reliable workstation. I used it for photography, video, and music production. I’m retiring it as I’ve moved on to something else.
I upgraded the video card for better graphics processing. It also has a 2TB SSD for fast performance. I maxed out the RAM to 32GB.
There are four fast hard drives (details below). I used the 4TB for Time Machine. The other three could be made into a RAID I suppose. Depends on your situation.
It will boot into macOS Mojave with a new admin account. Log in is name=Admin and pass=admin.
The mouse was never used and still in the wrapper! The keyboard had some use but it's been in the box for many years. I’ve put a few video cables in the box since I no longer need them. They’ll get you connected to DVI and HDMI displays.
This will ship in the original Apple box.
Technical Specifications
Processor
- 6 core Intel Xeon @ 3.33GHz
- 256k L2 Cache (per Core)
- 12MB L3 Cache
- Hyper-Threading
- 32GB memory
Upgraded Graphics
- AMD Radeon R9 280X
- 3GB VRAM
Memory
- 32GB (4x 8GB DIMM 1333MHz)
Storage
- 2TB SSD for fast main drive
- Four 3.5-inch cable-free, direct-attach drive bays with built-in independent 3Gb/s Serial ATA channels; loaded with four high performance hard drives for 9TB of additional storage.
- 4TB HD Seagate ST4000DM000
- 3TB HD Western Digital WD30EZRX
- 1TB HD Western Digital WD1001FALS
- 1TB HD Western Digital WD1001FALS
- 18x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Expansion
- One PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot
- Two PCI Express 2.0 x4 slots
- All slots provide mechanical support for 16-lane cards
- 300W combined maximum for all PCI Express slots
- One open optical drive bay for optional second SuperDrive
Communications
- Built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi wireless networking; 3 IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible
- Bluetooth 2.1 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) wireless technology
- Two independent 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (RJ-45) interfaces with support for jumbo frames
- Four FireWire 800 ports (two on front panel, two on back panel)
- Five USB 2.0 ports (two on front panel, three on back panel)
- Two USB 2.0 ports on included keyboard
- Front-panel headphone minijack and internal speaker
- Optical digital audio input and output TOSLINK ports
- Analog stereo line-level input and output minijacks