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  1. J

    Sata pcie splitter

    Hi everyone Just wondering how people generally feel about/ what experience people have with using Sata to 6 pin y cables to run a graphics card? I have access to an rx470 with 8 pin that has a tpd of over 150 so intend to use both the board 6 pins to run it. It'd be nice to be able to keep my...
  2. fhturner

    Dropping SATA Bay 3 when waking from sleep?

    Hey folks— Have a weird issue on my 2010 12-core, upgraded to 3.46GHz X5690s. When I wake the machine from deep sleep, it no longer finds SATA Bay 3. This causes my RAID0 scratch disk to fail to reappear after sleep. Just to make sure it isn't a specific disk or the RAID itself, I first swapped...
  3. Timnerney

    Macbook pro mid-2012 sata replacement

    I recently replaced my Mac standard HD with a western digital, worked perfect for ~3 months. Last night I got a flashing ? On boot. I tried recovery and disk utility but my disk isn't showing up at all. I ordered a replacement data cable to try that before I go broke in the apple repair shop. My...
  4. 8

    mbp late 2011 optibay SATA2 3Go

    Hello, i have a macbook pro late 2011 (8.2) with a 2To hdd. I bought a samsung 850 pro ssd 512Go. i place my 2To hdd in the optibay where i use to have my cd/dvd and the new ssd take place in the main bay. As many, i have many problems with hdd place in the optibay. I know about the 6Go (SATA3)...
  5. jakobaalose

    Has my Macbook 2012 committed suicide?

    Hello people, The problem this time is my Macbook Pro 13" 2012 Medio with MacOS Sierra with a Kingston SSD It starts and runs - but then freezes for about 5-10 seconds in intervals. It started suddenly when I just sat and watched some youtube videos. I have tried to run Apple Hardware...
  6. Nessdufrat

    Sata cable questions on iMac late 2013 21.5"

    Hi! Several questions here. First things first: I found this IMac in the trash. yes. Crazy. so it was kind of broken, the glass panel was shattered, the hard drive was missing, the power board was toast, the power button had been glued to the metal casing for whatever reason... this iMac had...
  7. RomerosDaniel

    Resolved Where else in my early 2008 mac pro can I get power?

    Hi, Ok, so I'm using Apricorn's Velocity Solo x2 and want to add an addition ssd through it's sata port (reason for this is Apricorn says read/write speeds will go up to 800mbps with two ssd's working together; please read about it if you don't know of this product), but I can't find any place...
  8. D

    help with rmbp hard drive data transfer

    hello all I have a retina MacBook pro 2012 a1398 z0ml4ll/a I bought the option with a 768 gb hard drive it looks like my MacBook took a turn for the worse, while playing video games or youtube it would sometimes just shut down / reset eventually the screen just didn't really turn on (but I...
  9. LarsG5

    Power Mac G5 11.2 SSD: PCI-e or SATA?

    Hi guys,I'm a happy owner of a Power Mac G5 Dual Core 2,3Ghz and I'm thinking about replacing my old original HDD with an ssd drive. So, I've got some questions on my mind, that google cannot answer: 1. Everymac.com says "This model has "two open full-length four-lane PCI Express slots", "one...
  10. M

    PCIe 2.0 lanes and card channels - fast card specs

    Looking at PCIe cards for MP 4,1 and 5,1. I want a fast SATA card with at least one eSATA and one internal port. CMP 2010 has PCIe 2.0 with "mechanical support for 16 lane cards." There are three open slots. one PCIe 2.0 X 16 and two PCIe 2.0 X 4. I assume one of the PCIe 2.0 X 16 slots is the...
  11. S

    (ISSUE) Replacing Broken HDD with SSD - 13" Macbook Pro 2012

    Hi! This if my first post so sorry if I'm not abiding by certain guidelines. My Internal Hard Drive was making a clicking sound and was extremely slow to boot up. If I log in, it loads for a while, goes to a black screen for a while, then goes back to the logging on screen. I decided to replace...
  12. circatee

    To Partition, or not?

    After conversing with others on this forum, a question popped into my head. With a 1TB fusion drive, that is preconfigured with Mac OS, etc. can one partition that drive? I was under the impression that doing so would cause issues with the fusion, thus breaking the fusion between the SSD and...
  13. enka95

    Logic Board SATA ports deads

    Hi, I'm new to this forum because i get back from trash a very damaged Mac Pro 4,1 (2009). But because it's solid stuff, it's stille working. The case is damaged, but verything is working... except the 4 internal SATA ports (SATA in optical bay is working, also power for each 4 internal SATA...