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MP 7,1 Compatible enterprise PCI-e based SSD
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I find it odd that the pict of the SSD is the same pict as listed on Amazon.
Spec Sheet is here:
Lou
Samsung MZ-PLK6T4A PM1725 6.4TB NVME SSD Solid State Drive MZPLK6T4HCJL-000D3 US
Samsung MZ-PLK6T4A PM1725 Series 6.4TB 5-DWPD Drive Writes Per Day Enterprise TLC V-NAND NVMe PCI-E 3.0x8 SSD Solid State Drive With Both Brackets MZPLK6T4HCJL-000D3 57X7G 057X7G KR-057X7G Model: MZ-PLK6T4A Part Number: MZPLK6T4HCJL-000D3 Series/Family: PM1725 Series Assembly Part Number: R5K5G 0...
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Spec Sheet is here:
Lou
I find it odd that the pict of the SSD is the same pict as listed on Amazon.
Samsung MZ-PLK6T4A PM1725 6.4TB NVME SSD Solid State Drive MZPLK6T4HCJL-000D3 US
Samsung MZ-PLK6T4A PM1725 Series 6.4TB 5-DWPD Drive Writes Per Day Enterprise TLC V-NAND NVMe PCI-E 3.0x8 SSD Solid State Drive With Both Brackets MZPLK6T4HCJL-000D3 57X7G 057X7G KR-057X7G Model: MZ-PLK6T4A Part Number: MZPLK6T4HCJL-000D3 Series/Family: PM1725 Series Assembly Part Number: R5K5G 0...www.amazon.com
Lou
Yeah, there are other options on eBay. Maybe I could order one from Amazon to give a try.
Note that these are standard PCIe card form factor.
Most of the "PCIe SSD" threads here are discussing the much smaller "M.2 PCIe" cards.
Thats a lot of money and a huge gamble that the MP would be able to use it for much more than *possibly* some form of storage / scratch disk, I'd sink that money in a 4x m.2 carrier card and 4x NVME SSDs and likely have a better solution in the end.
Unless you are feeling very brave I would not risk it. I was tempted and did some digging. On another thread it is stated that Apple use NVMe protocol v.1.3 in all their SSDs. If you look at the spec sheet for the Samsung drive it runs on NVMe v.1.2. Without trying it who knows, but the omens do not look good!
Just put in a consumer grade M.2 a save yourself the hassle of incompatibility
Im using a 2TB Samsung Evo plus on an ASUS M.2 Hyper PCIE adapter and works flawlessly
Promise Pegasus R4i 32TB incoming for massive storage
Mac Pro 7,1 12c/98GB/Pro Vega II
Im using a 2TB Samsung Evo plus on an ASUS M.2 Hyper PCIE adapter and works flawlessly
Promise Pegasus R4i 32TB incoming for massive storage
Mac Pro 7,1 12c/98GB/Pro Vega II
Asus HYPER M.2 X4 MINI CARD, the one blade version, works fine.
ASUS HYPER M.2 X16 CARD is a 4-blade adapter that requires bifurcation, or more correctly Intel PCI Express Lane Partitioning support, that no Mac supports it.
For people that will read this in the future searching about this 4-blade adapter, don't buy this card since only one blade of the four that the card supports will work when installed in a Mac. Read more on the first post of the thread PCIe SSDs - NVMe & AHCI.
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AFAIK, no one tested this HHHL NVMe device yet.
Apple have a god tracking of supporting NVMe M.2 devices, just some oddballs are incompatible, but the support for U.2 and HHHL devices is less than stellar. Several Intel and Huawei HHHL/U.2 devices were tested and found not compatible with Mac Pros.
For big capacities NVMe devices, look at Micron 90xx/91xx/92xx drives, all tested up to now worked fine.
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