Mercury Accelsior PCI Express SSD

Nope. You need to either do a clean OS install or use a cloning program to copy the OS contents.

Doing a normal drag-n-drop will not copy all files.

The boot disk cannot be ejected, even if you're booting from a USB stick or DVD. Any disk that is not being booted from or being actively flagged for use by an open application can be ejected.

Their webpage tagline is "Boot, Launch, Create, and Save Faster", which means the card is bootable.

The best option is to do a clean install and use Migration Assistant to copy over your settings and programs.

The Mac Pro silver tower does not contain firmware to do Internet Recovery independently.

It would be wise to create a Recovery Disk Assistant copy of your existing Recovery_HD (onto a separate thumb drive) before you make your move. A Recovery_HD may be difficult or impossible to create on the Acccelsior-based SSDs.

Mac OS X: About Recovery Disk Assistant

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Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:

Recovery_HD

That is neither nessassary or useful to waste 700MB of your $560 drive on that. Buy a $5 8GB USB stick and load the OS installer on that.

In addition, it is not stated what OS the OP is using.

The point I was trying to get across is that you are venturing into an area where SSD problems may not be quite as recoverable as on old-fashioned rotating drives, and that the Silver Mac Pro towers do not have the benefit of built-in Firmware that can get you Utilities and simple Internet reload on a whim.

I intended to advocate using Recovery Disk Assistant to create a separate Recovery_HD on a 1GB USB thumb drive. I am sorry if that did not come through loud and clear.

You can certainly use an 8GB thumb drive and create a Full Installer if you prefer. I believe that will have a Recovery_HD on it as well.

Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:

SSD problems may not be quite as recoverable as on old-fashioned rotating drives

Nonsense.

I had no issue cloning my system to my Accelsior PCIe SSD. As DieselFuelForLife stated the boot drive is non-ejectable.

The recovery is a different (hidden) partition of the drive. By doing a plain clone you did not repartition your drive to make one.

Do not bother yourself to make one.

One of the differences between SD! and CCC is creating recovery partition (offering to)

I would also clone the SSD, may not need to even be as large, and could shrink and create a small slice on any drive, data or even TimeMachine. And if you do use CCC it is worth the fee, it will. One reason to use the clone instead of Recovery is Recovery mode when you run DU will not trim blocks which you want to do. In fact after cloning it is a good idea to run Disk Utility and make sure TE is installed on all your system drives.

SD and CCC generally work to clone. But there have been more than a couple cases it did not. And in some cases had to clone to the SSD while using another drive bay or external, and then move it to the PCIe cards, at least Sonnet Tempo SSD and maybe others like OWCs.

just clone your boot hard drive into the Mercury and choose it as the start up disk using super duper.

works just fine over and over again. cheers.

ps