What's a good solid-state drive for my Pro 1.1, c.250-500gb?

This is another set of recipes and some discussion about how to get a fast Boot drive, such as on an SSD:

User Tip: Creating a lean, fast Boot Drive

Samsung is one of the best consumer SSD brands and has been for several years. If you've got the money, buy the 850 Pro otherwise 840. Keep in mind that Apple doesn't support TRIM for third-party drives. http://www.zdnet.com/article/os-x-yosemite-and-third-party-ssds-heres-what-you-n eed-to-know/

Hatter, I have read many of your fascinating posts.

I have the same MP 1,1 2.66 as the OP.

I just put an icy dock and 850 EVO in.

I have two questions, and forgive me if they are daft!

- Isn't the Velocity Solo X1 PCIe card going to be bootable and cheap?

- Is there any way to get more than the 250mb/s with the MP 1,1 - what am I missing?

OWC sells a PCle blade SSD and their page includes:

Mac Pro Throughput:

• 2009-2010 Mac Pro. Installing Accelsior into any open x4 or x16 PCIe 2.0 slot will deliver full throughput up to 785MB/s.
• 2008 Mac Pro. These models have two x16 PCIe 2.0 slots, which enable Acceslsior_E2 to deliver full throughput up to 785MB/s. Installing Accelsior_E2 into of the two x4 PCIe 1.0 slots will result in Accelsior_E2 being addressed as a gen one, one-lane card with performance limited to real world 190-200MB/s data rates.
• 2006-2007 Mac Pro. These models utilize PCIe 1.0 slot which cannot be configured (even with the Expansion Utility in OS X) to address Accelsior_E2 as anything but as a first generation one-lane card. As a result, Accelsior_E2 performance will be limited to 190-200MB/s data rates. If maximum data rate speed up to 285MB/s is desired, we recommend the installation of a 2.5" OWC Mercury SSD in an open Mac Pro drive bay.

from:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/SSDPHWE2R480/

For bootable, I use the XP941 - that should be clear from my posts.

Someone on MacRumors pointed to a Apricorn with 1,1 support. But it does not get you SATA III ! 😉

NOTE: Early model Mac Pro’s 1,1 and 2,1 have PCIe 1.0 expansion slots. Performance of the Solo will be limited by the PCIe bus to about 250MB/s max. Your Mac model can be found by doing an "About This Mac", and then "More Info".

I would not touch O/WC even if paid.

So if you need more than what you got - and in real world while the XP941 can with the 256GB unit ($270 + adapter) gets 900MB/sec writes - faster than even TWO SATA III SSDs in RAID0 - I do not endorse RAID for system for number of reasons. I used my 8x slot with XP941.

The best is the ebay Apple units like 500GB or larger or XP941 500GB ($500).

Apple Samsung 768 GB PCIe SSD for MacBookPro Retina, iMac,Mac Pro Late 2013-2014 | eBay

XP941 128GB

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IT8VTN2/

http://www.amazon.com/Sintech-NGFF-PCIe-SATA-Adapter/dp/B00LM4EPF4/

So find an Apple device on ebay - though most 1,1 users aren't running Yosemite so no fear using TRIM. The prices on those are very good and just need a cheap $20-35 adapter to fit to PCIe slot.

Thanks also Illaass.

Hatter, sorry to ask the same question...

- With the Sintech adapter and XP941 will I get 900mb/s write on a MacPro 1,1 with PCIe 1.0...?

Apologies, I am gonna bump this again...

Hatter, sorry to ask the same question again... I am a bit confused by your post...

- With the Sintech adapter and XP941 will I get 900mb/s write on a MacPro 1,1 with PCIe 1.0...?

And one year later I will bump this one again because life went on and I never got the chance to get the ****** card nor the adapter. But here I am, again, looking at the same options. The obvious most interesting one would be the 256 Gb XP941 for my needs (OS, Apps, Lightroom catalog) but it's out of stock in most websites I check. Due to the likelihood of having to pay for import taxes I am checking only European sites. Now, while looking for info I started reading about the SM951, which I CAN get at amazon.es .

Is this drive a drive I can use as a bootable one in my MacPro 1,1 or must I find a way to get my hands on a 941?

By the way, because I like living in the Iron Age I am still on Snow Leopard, but planning on upgrading to Lion because I need a newer version of Lightroom. Graphics Card is still the original NVidia 7300GT.

Again, many thanks.