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More life for MacPro early 2008

I'm pretty sure that would work with one of the available PCIe adaptors, it's one of the pnes mentioned in the giant PCIe SSD thread.

As I understand it though, that is not APPLE oem, I'm pretty those would be at least joint branded on the sticker. That would mean no native trim as far as I know.

I'm not sure how much of a difference it makes to be honest. I run a manual trim on my SSD every while and haven't seen any issues yet. I guess I'll find out down the line :)

EDIT: Incidentally, if you don't own any SSD already, then the PCIe M.2 route seems like the best option now. It's not much more cost than buying a 2.5" drive, and miles faster, at least 4x the speed of SATA2, maybe more depending on specific configs.
 
I have a 3.1 with a Crucial SSD in the original bays. You get 250MB/s, but is enough for everything you do, It's massively faster than the spinning drive.
As a boot drive you don't need huge speeds. So for like $120 you can get a 256GB SSD plus the caddy. The performance gain from the SSD is not from the sequential read/write speed, is from the random access. For that, it doesn't matter if it is PCI, Sata2 or 3.

The Mac pro 3.1 is an old beast, not very powerful. I wouldn't invest more than that. A 4.1-5.1 is another story.
 
mdindestin said:
Would something like this work in a 3.1? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-SM9...994?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aeb7efd1a

It's a SM951 so do all of them support TRIM? It says OEM, does that mean Apple OEM?
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By default, OS X only supports TRIM on Apple branded SSDs. You can, however, enable TRIM for non-Apple SSDs either through Terminal or with an app named TRIM Enabler. I don't know if OS X 10.11 El Capitan will change this.

No, that is not an OEM Apple SSD.
 
pastrychef said:
By default, OS X only supports TRIM on Apple branded SSDs. You can, however, enable TRIM for non-Apple SSDs either through Terminal or with an app named TRIM Enabler. I don't know if OS X 10.11 El Capitan will change this.
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It's worth mentioning that there are serious potential downsides to enabling TRIM on unsupported drives. It's an unsigned kext, and has to turn on 'dev mode' to be used. An accidental reset of PRAM reenables kext signing, rendering the Mac un-bootable.

It is possible to recover from this, but a total pain none the less should it happen to you.
 
Mine is a 2.8 dual quad core bought recently just for running FCPX but liking the OS all around. Want biggest bang for buck on upgrades but not editing 4k or raw video files - yet. Will eventually move components to a 5,1.
 
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