Apricorn Velocity Solo X2 $60 & Duo $100 after rebate ends 3/31/15

[troy14]

Hi everyone

Just thought i'd share this deal for my fellow Mac Pro people.

Amazon is selling the Apricorn Velocity Solo X2 for $89.99 with a $30 mail in rebate. http://www.amazon.com/Apricorn-Velocity-Extreme-Performance-VEL-SOLO-X2/dp/B0090IA3GY

The Duo is $139.99 with a $40 mail in rebate (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NTQGZH4/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687602&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0090IA3GY&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1B42QNFVHFX0GN1DZZ1D.

The form can be found here: http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/00/00/63/78/81/90/6378819050._V330909500_.pdf


Hurry though, must be bought by 3/31/15!

 

[H2SO4]

Hi everyone

Just thought i'd share this deal for my fellow Mac Pro people.

Do you have one?

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

Do you have one?

I have two in my 4,1 (flashed to 5,1). Questions?

Also, in addition to the OP's information, the rebate limit is ONE. If you wanted to do TWO in a Mac, just buy the 2nd one at Newegg.com. Same price, same rebate amount, but DIFFERENT rebate so both are valid.

 

[troy14]

Do you have one?

No, just bought one for my new Mac Pro 5,1 that isn't here yet... just thought I'd share a good deal

 

[H2SO4]

Had one for a while. When it arrives can you do me a favour. Pls?
Install it an open System Profiler. Go to PCI and highlight the card. Check the 'link width'.
Mine is x1 but it should be x2. (I have the Velocity Duo x2).

 

[todesto]

Thanks for the info. I have been looking at this PCIe card and I currently have SSD in my SATA 1 port and made fusion drive with 2TB HDD which is connected to SATA 2 port in my MacPro5,1.
Would I gain significant increase by using this card?

 

[flowrider]

Had one for a while. When it arrives can you do me a favour. Pls?
Install it an open System Profiler. Go to PCI and highlight the card. Check the 'link width'.
Mine is x1 but it should be x2. (I have the Velocity Duo x2).

I have two Duo's and they are both listed as x2 Link Width.

Lou

 

[H2SO4]

I have two Duo's and they are both listed (twice) as x1 Link Width. Nor sure what the answer is, I never noticed this before.

Lou

I’ve gone back to Apricorn and they say that it should be x2. Their resident Mac guy gets back on Monday so I’ll go over it with him then.

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I have two in my 4,1 (flashed to 5,1). Questions?

Also, in addition to the OP's information, the rebate limit is ONE. If you wanted to do TWO in a Mac, just buy the 2nd one at Newegg.com. Same price, same rebate amount, but DIFFERENT rebate so both are valid.

Have a look at post 5……..

 

[SDAVE]

I have a velo x2 with a Samsung 830 256GB and its listed as x2 in link width.

 

[Childs]

Anyone with the Solo or Duo have problems picking boot drives at startup? I saw one review about the Solo on Youtube and he mentioned he cannot hold option to select a boot device with the card installed.

 

[H2SO4]

I have a velo x2 with a Samsung 830 256GB and its listed as x2 in link width.

Would you or anybody else mind posting a shot from Profiler as per?;

 

[H2SO4]

Anyone with the Solo or Duo have problems picking boot drives at startup? I saw one review about the Solo on Youtube and he mentioned he cannot hold option to select a boot device with the card installed.

Nope. OptionBoot works well for me. That said, I have two drives on mine. The OSX one is always hidden but the Windows one always mounts on the desktop. Also if I boot into Windows, when I come back to OSX it always forgets that the Velo drive is the boot drive and starts up from one of the OSX installs I have in a regular sled.
It also forgets my Finder window settings.

 

[666sheep]

Had one for a while. When it arrives can you do me a favour. Pls?
Install it an open System Profiler. Go to PCI and highlight the card. Check the 'link width'.
Mine is x1 but it should be x2. (I have the Velocity Duo x2).

Have you tried to reset PRAM? It sometimes can fix incorrect link width in ASP. You can check actual value using lspci.

 

[H2SO4]

Have you tried to reset PRAM? It sometimes can fix incorrect link width in ASP. You can check actual value using lspci.

Yup. Tried that yesterday. (Waited for the obligatory 3 chimes).
What's lspci BTW?

 

[666sheep]

If PRAM reset does not help, you can try other PCIe slot. Lspci is command line unix tool capable of listing all PCIe devices and their properties.

 

[SDAVE]

Would you or anybody else mind posting a shot from Profiler as per?;

Here you go.

 

[SDAVE]

Would you or anybody else mind posting a shot from Profiler as per?;

Try switching the PCI slot. Try all slots. If you have other cards in slots, take them out (except GFX card of course) and try the Velo in all slots.

 

[H2SO4]

Try switching the PCI slot. Try all slots. If you have other cards in slots, take them out (except GFX card of course) and try the Velo in all slots.

So far have only tried in slots 3 & 4. I’ll try in slot 2 but I wouldn’t leave it there permanently I don’t think. It covers the GPU fan.
No other PCI stuff installed……….

Thanks for the screen shot. The only real difference is the slot it’s in. But in a 5,1 all slots should be PCIe Rev2, x4 or better.

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If PRAM reset does not help, you can try other PCIe slot. Lspci is command line unix tool capable of listing all PCIe devices and their properties.

Cheers, gonna have a look at that.

 

[666sheep]

I owned few various 9230 based cards (except Velo) and put them in all possible slots and never encountered this problem. But never go any of them to work @x2 in a PCIe 1.0 slots of 1,1/2,1.

 

[H2SO4]

I owned few various 9230 based cards (except Velo) and put them in all possible slots and never encountered this problem. But never go any of them to work @x2 in a PCIe 1.0 slots of 1,1/2,1.

Hmm. Well hopefully tomorrow. Apricorn themselves will shed some light on it.

 

[flowrider]

So far have only tried in slots 3 & 4. I’ll try in slot 2 but I wouldn’t leave it there permanently I don’t think. It covers the GPU fan.
No other PCI stuff installed……….

I have one Duo installed in slot 2 and the other in slot 3. Both (all four drives) are listed as 1x.

Lou

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

I have one Duo installed in slot 2 and the other in slot 3. Both (all four drives) are listed as 1x.

Lou

If you have Duo's what are your performance speeds (Blackmagic, etc.)? If the Duo's were actually operating at x1 single lane speed, you would top out below 500MB/s, right? If you're getting more than that from two SSD's in one slot, then they must be operating at x2.

Is my thinking correct?

 

[hfg]

It would appear that my Velocity DUO in slot 3 has a LinkWidth: x2 in a Mac Pro 5,1

I only have a single SSD (Windows 8.1) mounted it to it at the moment ... wonder if that makes a difference vs. having 2 SSDs attached? (really long shot)

 

[H2SO4]

If you have Duo's what are your performance speeds (Blackmagic, etc.)? If the Duo's were actually operating at x1 single lane speed, you would top out below 500MB/s, right? If you're getting more than that from two SSD's in one slot, then they must be operating at x2.

Is my thinking correct?

I get around 330MB/s.

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It would appear that my Velocity DUO in slot 3 has a LinkWidth: x2 in a Mac Pro 5,1

I only have a single SSD (Windows 8.1) mounted it to it at the moment ... wonder if that makes a difference vs. having 2 SSDs attached? (really long shot)

I’ll have to give that a try and see also.

 

[hfg]

If you have Duo's what are your performance speeds (Blackmagic, etc.)? If the Duo's were actually operating at x1 single lane speed, you would top out below 500MB/s, right? If you're getting more than that from two SSD's in one slot, then they must be operating at x2.

Is my thinking correct?

Here is a BlackMagic test with the exact same pair of Crucial M4 SSDs in RAID-0 on both a Tempo Pro and a Velocity DUO in the same slot #2 of the same 5,1 Mac Pro. The Tempo Pro is a 4-lane card vs. the Duo 2-lane.