SATA III With Mac Pro 2008
Hi,
I have been scouring the internet for a few hours trying to pin point an answer for my question, but sadly Its not clear wether this can be done.
I have a Mac Pro 3,1 Early 2008 x2 2.8ghz and I am about to purchase an ssd and was wondering if I can get SATA III running Lion 10.7.5 as a bootable drive.
I am aware of the OCS Mercury Accelsior but sadly too expensive. The only options I have discovered which may work is this:
The PEXSAT32 2 port SATA 6gbps PCI Express internal controller card:
Just to test, I downloaded the driver for this card as it said 10.6/10.7, but the driver was Windows only. So does this mean Mac OS X recognises Startech cards natively? If so, could I install this card, screw a ssd 2.5" bracket on one of the hard drive bays and have Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 as a bootable drive?
There is another card I've found by Sonnet, the tempo SATA 6GB/s and that says its bootable, but its an external eSATA version which means having bootable hard drives in external caddies which would be a bit messy.
Any help will be much appreciated :-)
Many thanks