Fastest SSD in Mac Pro 2006 thru 2012, Leopard and above

I can't for the life of me see where I can send a PM to you. I don't want to take up space on a particular subject talking about something unrelated to the subject of the post. Long story short, my situation with the 5,1 took a twist since my last post, and I'm SERIOUSLY thinking about doing a U-Turn. The seller wasn't 100% honest with me.😠...NOT COOL.

Send me a PM, so I can fill you in on the situation offline. If you'd rather me use this forum, let me know as well.

As usual, thanks for your time.

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Answer 2

The hatter Author

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Feb 27, 2015 8:01 AM in response to 13th Crowned

One of those 4,1's upgraded to 5,1 I assume? Something else?

People should be made aware.

I would say this, return it any way you can. RMA, BBB, cancel or stop payment etc.

Make the most of the 1,1 you have now, and plan on APPLE Special or OWC only

If you are not on MacRumors (or another), do that and take it there.

I couldn't really talk today anyway and I have never done DM or "off site" help and support.

PS: would have preferred you tagged or posted to your other thread rather than on this which I use to link to and bookmarked for reference purposes.

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Answer 3

Dec 1, 2015 2:23 PM in response to The hatter

Hello, Hatter,

Just saw your thread about SSDs for older Mac Pros and hope I didn't buy the wrong thing. I have an early 2009 Mac Pro 2 X 2.26 GHz Quad Core. OriginaI 650gb Mac HD still chugging along, I have 14gb of RAM on board.

I just purchased a Samsung 850 EVO 500gb, which I plan to make my boot/application drive. I see you referring to PCIe drives, and honestly don't know the difference between that and the drive I just got. I was assuming I would just plug the SSD in, since I have a slot available on my Hard Drive bank. Am I missing something about plugging this drive into a hard drive slot (with the proper adapter/sled?)

Thanks.

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Answer 4

lllaass

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Dec 1, 2015 2:48 PM in response to Craig Cooper1

The silver-tower Mac Pros only have SATA II and thus anly drive your directly connect to a SATA bus is limited to SATA II (3GB/s) while the 2 1/2 inch Evo drive y have is SATA III (6 GB/sec).

You can get PCle cards that will accept 2 1/2 inch SSDS that will operate them at SATA II speeds.

The blade SSD drives discussed in the original post operate at much faster that SATA III speeds

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Answer 5

Dec 1, 2015 11:25 PM in response to lllaass

Hello, I heard about this working great in older Mac Pros (in this case 4,1 & 5,1) with up to 4x M.2 SSD modules

on a PCIe card:

http://amfeltec.com/products/pci-express-carrier-board-for-m-2-ssd-modules/

The setup described was with 4 x Samsung SM951 in a striped RAID with the Amfeltec PCIe on the number 2 slot of a 5,1 MacPro

(apparently much faster than SSD's on SATA III ).

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Answer 6

Dec 2, 2015 6:43 AM in response to Jean-Baptiste Bocle

The Amfeltec card is now potentially the fastest possible solution for a classic Mac Pro. It allows up to four PCIe SSD modules to be 'stripped' together in a RAID0 configuration and give a staggering throughput of 5900MBps. See http://barefeats.com/hard210.html

As a comparison the fastest single SSD PCIe option is around 1500MBps.

Note: It uses Software RAID, the Barefeats test was I believe done using Apple's Software RAID. Hypothetically SoftRAID5.1 would be faster and also support RAID5 although RAID5 would not be at 5900MBps and would be more like 1500Mbps.

Note: The use of a capital B in MBps means we are talking mega bytes per second not mega bits per second.

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