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MP 1,1-5,1 BlackMagic speed Highpoint 7101a & Samsung 970
Hi, I've got four Samsung 970 SSDs in a Highpoint 7101a in Slot 1 (16x) in a Mac Pro 5,1. BlackMagic gives me write of 2508 MB/s, and a read of 2857 MB/s. That's for an individual SSD drive, I'm not using any RAID config. Is that speed around what should be expected? -
Trying to build a cMP (5,1) to reach 14,000 MB/s - need info on architecture constraints?
Can someone (please) direct me to a cMP (5,1) i/o architecture schematic I've seen somewhere on this site which will help me calculate maximum IO throughput ceilings as defined by the architecture and not the visible IO interface technologies (FW ports, SATA interfaces and PCIE slots) which I... -
Server RAID5: SAS/SATA vs. NVMe
Sometimes there are just too many good options... :P I am developing a plan for a Mac Pro server for a client of mine, and have been planning an SSD RAID5 for the main data store. I was liking this pretty cool solution from MaxUpgrades that situates 4 SAS or SATA SSDs in an optical bay, and...