MP 7,1 Booting question on new mac pro.

[philipma1957]

Simple enough set of questions.

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If I order the stock mac pro with a 2tb nvme ssd it is 6119 and the pegasus module is 359 total of
6478 plus 7% sales tax.

If I clone the 2tb nvme to the 8tb in the module will the module boot?

My needs are 800gb to 1200 gb of info on my bootable drive
and a back up bootable drive.

 

[kjohansen]

You would need to disable the T2 security to boot

 

[bxs]

Simple enough set of questions.

Please wait...

One Identity. One Wallet.

www.apple.com

I get a veterans discount.

If I order the stock mac pro with a 2tb nvme ssd it is 6119 and the pegasus module is 359 total of
6478 plus 7% sales tax.

If I clone the 2tb nvme to the 8tb in the module will the module boot?

My needs are 800gb to 1200 gb of info on my bootable drive
and a back up bootable drive.

1) First, a bootable image needs to located on an APFS formatted disk. If the 2Ji Toshiba disk is treated as an external device by macOS then the macOS needs to be configured to allow booting from external devices. If the macOS treats the 2Ji's disk as internal you're good to go. See here for details on how to do this -> https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/15/how-to-make-new-t2-secured-macs-boot-from-external-drives

2) To boot from the Promise Pegasus 2Ji's 8TB Toshiba disk it must be formatted as APFS

3) To format the Toshiba's 8TB disk to APFS use the Apple's bundled Disk Utility.

4) Once the Toshiba 8TB disk has been formatted as APFS you can now clone the internal bootable system to it using such as Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) or SuperDuper!.

5) Performing 4) will cause the Toshiba APFS disk to have one Container with a bootable image (it's actually two Volumes named OS and Data, and there are more volumes such as Preboot and others, but don't worry about them.

6) The cloning will likely use no more than 2 TB of space on the Toshiba 8TB disk.

7) Using Disk Utility you can create additional Volumes in the single Container on the Toshiba to hold user data. By default, Volumes within a Container can share the Container's space, that in this case is the whole ~8TB of space.

8) Once 4) has been done, then try booting from it. It should work, but likely to be slow as the booting is being done from a spinning disk as apposed to an SSD that is so much faster.