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MP 14,8 2023 Mac Pro - adding internal PCIe storage?..ADDED!
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Wow does that mean after using 2 slots you cant use the other 5 as there is no more allocation. 100% Pool A and 88% pool B with just 2 cards. it might as well be a 2 slot PCIe board then.
I've been looking at the same product from OWC.
I was curious if they advise you in the instructions to plug in the power cable and if that would provide higher speeds?
Their website states "Beyond 26,000MB/s speed with PCIe Gen 4 systems"
Are you using RAID 0 or something else?
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Benchmarking a MacBook Air M1's SSD. Awhile back, I made a video about USBc and the classic Mac Pro but lamented yet ago the terrible benchmarking...
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Thanks!
Wow, almost all the lanes are taken already with this one card. Interesting. I'm surprised the bandwidth is so limited here, given all the slots provided.
great info, what capacity of SSD you went for the Mac Pro?
Edit: I saw it, 1TB option, sorry
I think it's just that he doesn't have anything else plugged into those slots. I'm not sure but I think the Mac Pro has a total of 32 PCIe 4.0 lanes with 16x in each block. You couldn't populate each slot and expect each card to have full bandwidth simultaneously, but 1 16x card and maybe 2 8x cards would probably be more than sufficient for many (though not all) use cases. If you move gen 3 PCIe cards over to a new Mac Pro, they would only run at gen 3 speeds anyway.
exactly, people moving their pcie used in the 7,1 to the new Mac Pro should not have any problema at all.
No changes to speed with power connected. Fans were actually coming on with PCIe slot power only. So this card is fully powered by the PCI slot. No need for power cable to the card
Does anyone know if the Miron 7450 and 9400 series NVME u.3 work in the 2023 with the appropriate adapter?
The 9300 series worked perfectly in the 2019.
The 9300 series worked perfectly in the 2019.
The power cable is to supply power for the nvme drives in the event the pcie slot can’t provide the full 75W of spec’d power. Basically for PC’s
That fan never turns on from what I can hear, and if it does it's silent.
I'm considering the OWC Accelsior 8M2. Did you not have to deal this issue: https://www.owc.com/blog/nvme-storage-issue-with-the-new-mac-studio-and-mac-pro-with-m2-chips ?
I saw that and it made me worried…I have NOT experienced any issues whatsoever.
This things has worked out solid!
Kind of sad that you have 6 slots but basically are limited to just one serious card.
Showing one SSD card basically saturates the bus, and any further cards will deteriorate your SSD performance.I wonder if you fill up the other 5 slots with say 4x cards (not crazy for many sound pros) and then keep the one x16 card for SSD, what your tests would be then.
My hope is while those cards are inert that you would still get full speed. But it's common for 2 or more of the other cards to be pulling in data (eg audio) and then I wonder what the Mac throughput of the SSD would be?
You need to balance that for it to work if you have real time acquisition concerns.
Yeah, when I saw the new Mac Pro in the Apple Store the other week, the stock 1/O cards the come with the machine already take up 88% of one of the 2 PCIE pool allocations!Kind of sad that you have 6 slots but basically are limited to just one serious card.
I wonder if you fill up the other 5 slots with say 4x cards (not crazy for many sound pros) and then keep the one x16 card for SSD, what your tests would be then.
My hope is while those cards are inert that you would still get full speed. But it's common for 2 or more of the other cards to be pulling in data (eg audio) and then I wonder what the Mac throughput of the SSD would be?
You need to balance that for it to work if you have real time acquisition concerns.
So one full x16 PCIE 4.0 card would pretty much saturate all the remaining bandwidth given it would take up 100% of Pool B. Crazy its that limited, given its 6 open slots.