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Highpoint 7101A - PCIe 3.0 SSD performance for the cMP
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The Node Lite is a better enclosure than the one included with RocketStor 6661A-NVMe. In the end, you end up getting what you pay for. My preference would be for the Node Lite or Node Duo + the Highpoint.
Also I guess if I do a raid 5, the raid will not work on multiple Macs since it will be a software raid made on a specific machine?
Great!
What speed do you guys think a raid5, with 4x 1TB Samsung 970 pro, it will able to reach connected to thunderbolt 2?
For raid 0... YMMV with raid 5.
Thunderbolt 2 scales to around 1375 MB/s.
While thunderbolt 3 scales to around 2800 MB/s.
In a cMP x16 slot, the 7101a-1 the raid can reach around 6000 MB/s
In a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot, the 7101a-1 the tops out at 12,000 MB/s
I would be using it only in Thunderbolt 2/3, maybe it's a bit an overkill then..
mostly storing and moving large files.
It seems like an overkill, from an economic perspective, at the moment.
Question for you: With the Highpoint SSD7101A installed in your classic Mac Pro, what RPM speed do your PCI and PSU fans spin at without the use of Macs Fan Control?
If you can forego the raid 5 setup, 2 drives in a JBOD array would offer more storage with the speed of a M.2 disk.
Hi,
I'm new on this forum. I read this thread and I'm wondering which PCIe 3.0 x16 SSD card can I use on x299 motherboard with core I9-99XX processor to build a RAID 0 boot disk ...
Tx a lot in advance
I'm new on this forum. I read this thread and I'm wondering which PCIe 3.0 x16 SSD card can I use on x299 motherboard with core I9-99XX processor to build a RAID 0 boot disk ...
Tx a lot in advance
This is a Mac Pro forum, not about PC hardware compatibility. Perhaps you should look on a PC forum or a Hackintosh forum.
Try tonymacx86
Tx for your answer. I tried, but no answer found. I'm a Mac user (MacBook Pro 15 l plus iMac 27). I'd update my desktop Mac but at this moment Apple doesn't offer the right configuration for my needs. For this reason I was exploring the possibility to build an Hackintosh.
I still have to solve the storage problem. Reading this thread I understood that you have reached the top knowledge of all RAID on the Mac related problems and so I allowed myself to ask for help ...
Best X299 hackintosh guide > https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...ojave-successful-build-extended-guide.255082/
The thread is closed per the author's request. What did you mean "no answer at all"?
However, we're off topic. The above thread is continued by kgp's followers here, which you should post additional questions.
The problem is that a Mac Pro is not a PC and some Mac Pro limitations don't apply to current PCs but at the same time, PCs don't have the firmware support that a Mac Pro has, like booting from PCIe M.2/U.2/SAS RAID arrays without the need of any card firmware.
For example, Highpoint SSD7101-A is not bootable when installed in a PC, but is bootable in a Mac Pro without needing any drivers or configuration whatsoever, because Apple implemented everything needed, like NVMe boot support/PCIe switch support/etc, in the BootROM.
Most info you can gather here is not applicable to a hackintosh.
[doublepost=1563468430][/doublepost]BTW, a X299 motherboard probably supports bifurcation, while you won't have the same throughput of a switched card, you have cheaper options.
No answer in the sense that neither in all the threads you mention there is an answer, nor on the entire forum was anyone able to clearly answer my question. The few references to RAID solutions lead to your thread (meaning this) and so I thought I'd ask here ...
You're saying a bifurcated PCIe 3.0 x4 link in an x16 slot has lower throughput than a PCIe 3.0 x4 link of a downstream port of a bridge with x16 upstream port? I don't understand this. I would expect that not having a bridge between the slot and the link would give slightly better results, unless enabling bifurcation adds some intermediary device? It would be interesting to see the difference using something like pciutils.
Do bifurcated slots work in a Hackintosh? I think they should, if macOS doesn't undo what the BIOS settings do.
If I remember correctly, depends on the processor used, but usually with a X299 platform you have 30 PCIe 3.0 lanes and 6 of these are permanently allocated to USB3.x ports, so at best you have 16 lanes for the GPU and 8 lanes for the second PCIe x16 slot, but most times you can't have all those lanes available since x299 motherboards usually have other peripherals already using the lanes, like Ethernet 10G using 4 lanes or Thunderbolt.
So, with four blades, at best, you can have just two lanes for each blade wired at boot up, that's why I warned about being slower. Some motherboards have switches and muxes on-board, plus you can install a high end Skylake-X with 44 lanes, but for the medium range, there are not enough lanes.
Anyway, this is totally off-topic. You should find a more appropriate forum like tonymacx86 or insanelymac.
Is the 6200+ achieved with a RAID? If so, can you share how you configured the RAID? I have a cMP5,1 with Mojave, boot ROM is 144.0.0.0.0, and a 7101A in slot 1. One Samsung 970 Pro 512GB runs at 3200 (read) but two 970s in HFS+ RAID 0 (created with diskutil) run at 3000 (read).
I created the RAID with `diskutil appleRAID create stripe RAID HFS+ disk0s2 disk1s2`
Here's my System Info:
