MP 7,1 A handy way to add 2.5" SSD drives to the 7,1

[Grumply]

Just stumbled across this on Amazon:

Kingwin SSD Mounting Bracket for PCI, 2 x 2.5 Inch SSD to PCI Internal Hard Drive Mounting Kit. Convert Any 2 x 2.5” SSD Into One PCI Slot, Mounting Screws Included, Quick & Easy Installation

King win PCI-E Frame for 2.5” HDD that converts 1 PCI-E slot into 2 x 2.5” IDE/SATA HDD/SSD Mounting Bracket. KW-PCI2H25 supports any 2.5” IDE/SATA HDD/SSD. Make full use of your open PCI slot!

www.amazon.com

And I gather there's a few others like it. Will probably be the cheapest way to add some internal 2.5" SSDs to the 7,1

Just mount them up near the top of the PCI slots, and connect them via the two SATA ports on the motherboard.

 

[tsialex]

Just stumbled across this on Amazon:

Kingwin SSD Mounting Bracket for PCI, 2 x 2.5 Inch SSD to PCI Internal Hard Drive Mounting Kit. Convert Any 2 x 2.5” SSD Into One PCI Slot, Mounting Screws Included, Quick & Easy Installation

King win PCI-E Frame for 2.5” HDD that converts 1 PCI-E slot into 2 x 2.5” IDE/SATA HDD/SSD Mounting Bracket. KW-PCI2H25 supports any 2.5” IDE/SATA HDD/SSD. Make full use of your open PCI slot!

www.amazon.com

And I gather there's a few others like it. Will probably be the cheapest way to add some internal 2.5" SSDs to the 7,1

Just mount them up near the top of the PCI slots, and connect them via the two SATA ports on the motherboard.

You forgot the power. Unless you make yourself a MP7,1 SATA power cable or buy a Promise 2Ji just for the cable, you won't get this working

 

[profdraper]

I went with an OWC Thunderbay 6 (for now). I had quite a number of 2.5" SSDs to migrate & this seemed the most straightforward solution given there is little out there just yet. Configured as: 5x2TB Samsung 850s via OWC SoftRAID as RAID 4 (provides 8TB for various Media, Audio, Film, SoundLibs); 1x4TB Samsung SSD, possibly as as fast Timemachine, but maybe later for a dedicated VI SoundLibs volume if the performace is lacking (about 1.5 TB there for Native Instruments, Steinberg Absolute, etc etc); and a Samsung 256GB PM961 NVME in the Thunderbay m.2 slot as an Alt Boot disk for maintenance, recovery, Carbon Copy Cloner restores etc, just in case

 

[Grumply]

You forgot the power. Unless you make yourself a MP7,1 SATA power cable or buy a Promise 2Ji just for the cable, you won't get this working

Surely someone will have a cable to breakout that ten-pin port to dual SATA power soon enough?

 

[bsbeamer]

Surely someone will have a cable to breakout that ten-pin port to dual SATA power soon enough?

keep an eye here, there’s already a thread:

Sata power 10-pin molex pinout

From another poster's images you can see that the J2i is just using four pins from Apple's 10-pin power supply for each of the drives. In other words, they've just turned the regular ugly 4-pin molex (5v, 12v, ground x2) into a more friendly shape. Has anyone checked the pinout on this board...

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