Just a quick question. I have a 2010 MacPro and it’s missing 2 drive drive sleds. I’m looking for 2 replacements. My question is will any year drive sled work or do I need to stick to the 2009-2012 versions.
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2009/2010/2012 only, 2006/2007/2008 are shorter and don't work 2009 onwards.
Thanks. I know the enclosure has had subtle changes over the years but wasn’t sure what changed.
2006/2007 are the same enclosure, 2008 is a little larger and have different logic board standoffs, bigger heatsinks, but same sleds. 2009/2010/2012 are the exact same enclosure again.
2008 is the only year that have a unique enclosure.
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I know I just bashed on OWC in another thread, but if you need to buy cMP 2009/10/12 sleds and aren't picky about them having the silkscreened numbers on them, then you may strongly want to consider purchasing the OWC sleds for only a few bucks more than buying used genuine sleds on ebay:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L1DH3AA
The OWC ones have the correct screw pattern to accommodate today's higher capacity 6TB+ drives whereas the genuine Apple sleds don't.
Or, if you're going to be throwing an SSD on them anyway, you could buy the OWC SSD sleds for only $17.50 each:
https://www.adorama.com/owcmmp35t25.html
Not sure why OWC made them blue, but I guess in a good way it makes it easy to discern what bay your SSDs are in.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L1DH3AA
The OWC ones have the correct screw pattern to accommodate today's higher capacity 6TB+ drives whereas the genuine Apple sleds don't.
Or, if you're going to be throwing an SSD on them anyway, you could buy the OWC SSD sleds for only $17.50 each:
https://www.adorama.com/owcmmp35t25.html
Not sure why OWC made them blue, but I guess in a good way it makes it easy to discern what bay your SSDs are in.
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If you're looking for the original ones you could try Mac Parts Online.
Part number is 922-8899. Googling turns up quite a few places that have them, including some used ones from OWC that are currently on sale.
Part number is 922-8899. Googling turns up quite a few places that have them, including some used ones from OWC that are currently on sale.
if you're feeling adventurous, you can download the 3D printing software to your laptop plus the reenforced plastic template and print one at your local library. It takes about 50 - 70 minutes to print one though.
Wow, you can do this at a public library? I had no idea...
What 3D printing software are you referring to, and where do you download the template?
I’d like to do this myself just for the fun.
the template would be very handy. At my school there is a design department that uses a 3d printer to do lots of stuff.
Pretty good. I have Mojave running on the SSD and I have installed a second hard drive that I use just for data like documents and pictures and downloads just to keep as much as I can off the SSD since it's only a 250gb. The only complaint I have is in Safari when going to certain pages such as Facebook I get a spinning ball for about 3 seconds then I can access the page normally. It's only certain pages like I said and I attribute this more to Mojave than the machine itself. My wife starts back to school in a couple of weeks and that's when I will really get to push it doing data tracking spreadsheets and desktop publishing for her class. She teaches 6th grade science. I have noticed that the SSD has about 59% life left. So in the near future I'm going to be replacing it with something newer. On a side note it was damaged in shipping and I have a claim in with FEDEX for a new/used case. Can't hurt worst they will say is no and I will have to pick one up a little later on. It is way faster then the 2009 core2duo iMac I was using. Downside I need to purchase another monitor to have my 2 monitor setup back or get one big monitor. I was wondering if you had any experience using say a 40" or so HDTV. I'm only interested in 1080p right now and have no plans for 4K until it's more mainstream. The TV route is waaaay cheaper than a computer monitor the same size.
I do not have any experience with TVs in place of a monitor. I only use monitors on my systems and the largest I have is my Apple 23" Cinema Display. When it comes to monitors I'm way behind the times.
What/where reports the remaining amount of life left?
Well in lieu of a direct answer from OP, I did some research and I see there are several drive utilities that seem to be reading or interpreting SMART data and proving % life remaining for SSDs.
I guess one way to test would be to run all of them on the same drive and see if they agree on the % life remaining.
Sorry for the late response. I had a personal appearance this weekend, so I was hella busy.
Repetier-host is the windows software to print the CAD items. I'm not sure if there's a Mac version, but since all modern apple laptops run Windows 7/10 it shouldn't be an issue.
Here are links to the CAD files for the sleds and adapters:
4,1/5,1 sled: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2759563
1,1/3,1 sled: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2771531
SSD adapter: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1630550
Those CAD files are for 60% fill, but Repetier-host can increase the fill to 100%.
Here's a partial video printing a drive sled:
Here are a few photos of printing in progress, and finished product:
Repetier-host is the windows software to print the CAD items. I'm not sure if there's a Mac version, but since all modern apple laptops run Windows 7/10 it shouldn't be an issue.
Here are links to the CAD files for the sleds and adapters:
4,1/5,1 sled: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2759563
1,1/3,1 sled: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2771531
SSD adapter: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1630550
Those CAD files are for 60% fill, but Repetier-host can increase the fill to 100%.
Here's a partial video printing a drive sled:
Here are a few photos of printing in progress, and finished product:
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You will need some software that can really show you all SMART data, not just the temperature. I still don't know any method in terminal to get them so far.
It seems 10.13.6 block the SMART info extraction. May be some software is already updated to "fix" it. But I didn't follow closely in this area, so no idea which one can work.
However, if you have Windows / Linux, there should be lots of software that can read the SMART status. This is drive format independent. So, even your drives are format to APFS, Windows software can still read the SMART status.
e.g. My Samsung 1TB 840 Evo shows 97 TB Written.
The TLC should be rated around 1000 cycle. So, I can expect a total of 1000 TB life span. And ~100 TB written means I still has ~90% life span left.
And if I click the S.M.A.R.T button below. I will see this
Threshold is 0 (0% life span left), and my current value is 90. So, 90% life span left as per the prediction above.