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Q: SSD Blade Drive for "Classic" Mac Pro

Repost of earlier thread.

 

PCIe-SSD which surpass SATA III speeds can mean a lot, and for a 1,1 is the only way to boot from PCIe (whether SATA III or not).

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/harddrives/index.html#d17feb2015

 

Samsung XP941 256GB PCIe 2.0 x4 M.2 SSD MZHPU256HCGL

M.2 Interface: PCIe Gen2 5Gb/s, up to 4 lanes

512MB LPDDR2 DRAM Buffer Memory

Support TRIM Command

Sequential Read: 1080MB/s, Sequential Write: 800 MB/s,

Random Read (QD=32): 120K IOPS, Random Write (QD=32): 60K IOPS

Works with (all)  Mac Pro. Not compatible with the MacBook Air or Retina MacBook Pro

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-XP941-256GB-PCIe-MZHPU256HCGL/dp/B00J9V53M6/

 

A smaller XP941 128GB that 'only' gets 450MB/sec writes instead of the 800-900MB/sec

http://www.amazon.com/NGFF-PCI-Express-SATA-Adapter/dp/B00M8HC5JC/

 

Lycom DT-120 M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter (Support M.2 PCIe 2280, 2260, 2242)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MYCQP38/

 

http://barefeats.com/hard183.html

 

SATA Express meets the ( '09 ) MacPro - Bootable NGFF PCIE SSD

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1685821

 

http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/08/samsung-sm941-pcie-ssd/

 

Next generation from Samsung:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150106006600/en/Samsung-Electronics-Mass -Producing-Extremely-Fast-Low-powered#.VOO5NoI5CUk

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), ATI 5770 16GB Samsung SSD Sonnet 6G

Posted on Feb 28, 2015 2:21 AM

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