Apple Support - Bootcamp Downloads

Question

I have had a bad experience with Apple Support concerning the install of Windows on my MacPro5,1. Though they spent time with me, they did not fix my problem. Well they sort of did, that's how I got here. The first person I spoke to was out of their depth when it came to installing Windows, so I was transferred to a "Senior Consultant". He went through a few things and used all the cliches and in the end he just blamed my wireless router and said there is nothing to be done. Well thanks mate! If this person spent some time in this forum he may have learned something from you guys. I have and I thank you for it.
Being a pain-in-the-butt kind of guy I persisted, and was lucky enough to get a lady called Grace (an apt name) as my next support person. Now the most dangerous people in this world are the people "Who don't know they don't know", the Senior Consult guy for example. Grace knew she didn't know, so she put me on hold and tried to find out. Well she put me onto a site that then lead me here and it seems the first part of my problem is solved. I am now downloading the Windows support package for my Mac.
The hard part of this excercise, other then being fobbed-off by people in Apple Support, was finding out which Windows drivers for Mac I should download. Grace sent me to http://www.cafe-encounter.net/p824/bootcamp-drivers-direct-download-of-bootcampe sd-pkg and that is where the answer lies. At this page, if you scroll down to point 6, there is a list of urls that show each package available. Click on each until you find your Model Identifier Number and that is the package that you should download. I then came here and User Moof66, in a post on July 2nd, 2012, lists the download links. Champion bloke that Moof666.  I just clicked on the download that matched my MacPro5,1 from the site supplied by Grace and I'm a happy camper.
Now I have to work-out how to install the package after the fabulously fast Apple servers finally deign to complete my download.......Back to the forum to find out.

Answer 1

Good. My son's boyfriend (don't worry it's not a matter of "Father Like Son") is a Mac freak. He was a beta-tester back in 1854 or something, and he has more Mac gear than you can poke a stick at. He has told me the same thing about OWC, but the first rule is verification and then verification.
I have in my shopping basket at OWC a New Tech(?) HD caddy which does all the stuff. Firewire 800 included. Keeping in mind that I need to keep one Firewire port available for an Audio Interface. Also an OWC Extreme 240Gb SSD. See why I need to know how this will all pan out space-wise? I have the bottomn of the range Mac Pro and I need to upgrade it and my wallet has my wife's hand in it, so there is a limit. I don't have $1,000.00 for the bigger drive. We have to keep in mind that this box will really only have the following installed.
Windows
SONAR including all the synths and other software.
Pro Tools and it shares all the synths with SONAR
Final Cut pro
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
MS Office
All the little do-dads that come with Mountain Lion and the stuff you need to make it run, like iGetter and Flash.
Everything will run in Mac except Windows, SONAR (and Office initially).
My hard-drive set-up currently is : OS Drive 1TB, Audio Drive 1TB, Sample Drive 1TB and Media Drive 2TB. All are 7200rpm except the Media Drive which is 5400rpm. Reason I have to use this at the moment is that during the Mac set-up two 2TB drives would not work after they were taken out of the PC and then formatted in the Mac. I was really happy!!!!
The Sample and Audio drives are for the sole use of the DAWs. One for storing audio and the other for samples, hence their names. This serves these purposes. One to take the pressure off the OS drive for speed/latency and to store all the big files. They have to be 7200rpm really as the cycle-rate is constant and high all the time. The cycle rate precludes them being SSD (they wouldn't last two minutes in my opinion) and the noise of Raptors is far too high in the studio, as well as all that high cycle-rate at 10,000rpm would be murderous. Some guys run 'em, but not me.
I am quickly learning that there are 7200rpm drives and then there are 7200rpm drives. Some research needed here. I have only bought on price before, and brand to a lessor extent. Tended to favour WD, but now that two have karked-it, I have found out to get them replaced under their 5 year warranty I have to send them to Malaysia. That's BULLSHINE!
I hope not to have to use much more space than that except for Final Cut Pro which will need it's own 2TB drive and a 4TB drive for back-up. Unfortunately they will have to be external because I am out of bays. Can't use external for Final Cut Pro without a Firewire caddy anyway.
Sorry about the rave. If you know all this music stuff I'll never mention it again.
What do you know about these much more expensive drives?