Hi there,
I am the proud owner of a "new" Mac Pro 2012 (Mojave) after my graphics cards on my Mac Pro 2010 (Snow Leopard) gave up on me twice within 8 months. The new unit has dual Xeon processors X5690, a Radeon RX 570 with 8 GB RAM and runs from a Samsung Evo 850 m.2 SATA 3 SSD mounted in a PCIE slot. OS is Mojave 10.14.6 and BootRom version is 144.0.0.0.0.
The SSD runs about 15 to 20 times faster than a Barracuda drive in the SATA drive bay, which is great. So far so good. But ...
I want to install Windows 10 Pro via Bootcamp, and I don't seem to find a solution online on whether I would be able to achieve this with the PCIe SSD. Ideally, I don't want to mess with the UEFI and install the Windows BIOS version only. Also, I don't really need the EFI Boot screen.
My questions:
1. Can you install Windows on a PCIe mounted SATA SSD (no need for NVME)?
2. Can this be done without involving Open Core and / or changing Bootcom?
3. Would it be better to forego the PCIe option and install Windows 10 into a SATA mounted SSD instead?
Thanks a lot for your help.
Cheers Bernd
I am the proud owner of a "new" Mac Pro 2012 (Mojave) after my graphics cards on my Mac Pro 2010 (Snow Leopard) gave up on me twice within 8 months. The new unit has dual Xeon processors X5690, a Radeon RX 570 with 8 GB RAM and runs from a Samsung Evo 850 m.2 SATA 3 SSD mounted in a PCIE slot. OS is Mojave 10.14.6 and BootRom version is 144.0.0.0.0.
The SSD runs about 15 to 20 times faster than a Barracuda drive in the SATA drive bay, which is great. So far so good. But ...
I want to install Windows 10 Pro via Bootcamp, and I don't seem to find a solution online on whether I would be able to achieve this with the PCIe SSD. Ideally, I don't want to mess with the UEFI and install the Windows BIOS version only. Also, I don't really need the EFI Boot screen.
My questions:
1. Can you install Windows on a PCIe mounted SATA SSD (no need for NVME)?
2. Can this be done without involving Open Core and / or changing Bootcom?
3. Would it be better to forego the PCIe option and install Windows 10 into a SATA mounted SSD instead?
Thanks a lot for your help.
Cheers Bernd