Please, let's not start this again... (I'm referring to the debate of whether or not we need faster drives)
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NVMe for Mac Pro 5,1
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Yeah you're right, useless argument.
I'd just like to add that I (for one) don't need faster drives, at all. But that's not the point, I want to tinker with the machine, push the limit. And I guess that for most of the cMP owners this is true. I could care less for boottimes now, it's way past fast enough to not be annoying.
That being said, cant wait for faster drives with higher IOPS
I'd just like to add that I (for one) don't need faster drives, at all. But that's not the point, I want to tinker with the machine, push the limit. And I guess that for most of the cMP owners this is true. I could care less for boottimes now, it's way past fast enough to not be annoying.
That being said, cant wait for faster drives with higher IOPS
You have to be one of the most negative people on this forum. Crapping in the OPs thread just because your narrow usage case doesn't have a use for higher performance disk speed. I guess all that should matter to any of us is boot, sleep and hibernate times.
You have to be one of the most negative people on this forum. Crapping in the OPs thread just because your narrow usage case doesn't have a use for higher performance disk speed. I guess all that should matter to any of us is boot, sleep and hibernate times.
I'm actually one of the very few people here from the looks of it who would benefit from high disk throughput, but NVMe still isn't going to make much difference if you're using a computer as a creative workstation which is NOT a narrow usage case from the cMP or nMP. Just stick this in your mind permanently : I was the first person to test official SM951 in a cMP and the only person here to RAID0 them for hard testing. However, I'm not here to be part of an emotional support group. If you want to live a life without seeing any from of critical thinking and realism then you are completely free to ignore people and live in a bubble instead of having a childish defensive reaction every time you see someone present another side of the coin.
He must spend his offline time smearing his feces all over public restrooms.
Thanks for the info and sorry, but some of his prices are just way to high.
True, he is the only one willing to do it, so he can charge whatever he wants, I just can't justify that expense.
I actually being looking into the R9 280X, just not sure if I'm keeping this cMP 4.1 or go all out and update CPU, ram and GPU. I already have a SSD in it.
Another thing that makes me wary is that the cheapest PSU replacement I found is over US$ 200, in case mine blows up.
OP, sorry for going OT.
+1, thought we had been freed of this.
Oddly there is no one else here arguing "You don't need a faster CPU/Hard Drive/GPU/RAM/Mouse, unless you are an old guy driving a sports car to get a girlfriend with big knockers so that your ex-wife knows that you don't need her anymore" or whatever that particular feces smearing rant was about.
Having PCIE boot drives has given me a few extras hours of free time per week. And no, in my hat collection there is nothing made of foil
I was trying to find the original article that he quoted from SSD Review. The only one I found was:
http://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/samsung-sm951-m-2-pcie-ssd-review-256gb-nvme-performance/
It seems to contradict everything he's stated and gave this:
http://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/samsung-sm951-m-2-pcie-ssd-review-256gb-nvme-performance/
It seems to contradict everything he's stated and gave this:
You might be right, but what you're expressing is an opinion, not a fact.
Going to the moon by your logic made absolutely no sense because there was no tangible benefit in going there. Personally I'm glad not everyone is happy with the status quo.
Haters are always gonna hate
There are people that need NVMe and there are those that want it.
I'm just so fascinated by computers and now that I'm studying computer science at the TU in Delft I'm just more psyched about computers and want to learn as much as I can about them
Haters are always gonna hate
There are people that need NVMe and there are those that want it.
I'm just so fascinated by computers and now that I'm studying computer science at the TU in Delft I'm just more psyched about computers and want to learn as much as I can about them
Don't worry, 99% of the folks here are excited about your project regardless of whether we may benefit from it or not. We love your enthusiasm, you have picked an interesting question for your project, and we want to know how it goes!
Haters are always gonna hate
There are people that need NVMe and there are those that want it.
I'm just so fascinated by computers and now that I'm studying computer science at the TU in Delft I'm just more psyched about computers and want to learn as much as I can about them
Love the concept here, keeping our cheese graters a few more years is paramount to my operations. I was also a little tickled when you mentioned thunderbolt
Main goal atm is NVMe, then USB 3.0.Love the concept here, keeping our cheese graters a few more years is paramount to my operations. I was also a little tickled when you mentioned thunderbolt
After that who knows what I'll be able to achieve
Main goal atm is NVMe, then USB 3.0.
After that who knows what I'll be able to achieve
Awesome!! Best of luck!! Many of us are excited at the possibilities.
Main goal atm is NVMe, then USB 3.0.
After that who knows what I'll be able to achieve
May be more CPU support (e.g. X5698), or even OC the CPU
Again, I know nothing about EFI, just throw out some idea
You can use refind to boot into EFI environment and then load drivers for connected devices to test the EFI driver.
ReFind works just fine with El Capitan. Just had to reinstall it after installing El Cap. works just fine.
Haters are always gonna hate
There are people that need NVMe and there are those that want it.
I'm just so fascinated by computers and now that I'm studying computer science at the TU in Delft I'm just more psyched about computers and want to learn as much as I can about them
People should realise technologies such as NVMe and PCIE SSDs have trickled down from enterprise server needs. Right now, especially in a cMP, they make very little practical difference unless someone can prove with some hard evidence that they will benefit. We've heard stories on this board but those same story tellers can never show any videos or images of how it is helping them in the real world.
And by the time these technologies will make a day to day difference in the real world our cMP will be a distant memory. Hanging on to it and giving it impractical upgrades...and I'm going to make analogies again without pointing at anyone...is like an old man trying to impress young girls with a sports car and hair implants...or like some Hollywood plastic woman desperately trying to stay relevant. It's embarassing for the Mac community. Choose practical upgrades like the GPU, and then be personally productive with what you have until it's time to dump the machine for good.
^^^^Damn - You're like a
Find somewhere else to play and other people to disturb. You've completely screwed up this thread
Lou
Find somewhere else to play and other people to disturb. You've completely screwed up this thread
Lou
Says the upgrade Nazi.
You should publish the list of Approved Updates so nobody else makes this horrible, life threatening mistake.
(BTW, is it OK if I drive my Sports car to Beverly Hills to get my hair plugs? Or should I take the bus, it's all so confusing.)
I'm not interested in being another person for you to attack on a personal level. You can go in the block filter.
Says the guy who decided to declare war on everyone over the age of 40 who drives a sports car.
Please continue sitting on the couch telling us about all the stuff we can't (or shouldn't) do.
So the guy wants to do some exploring, how does that hurt you? Way alienate so many people for no reason at all?
You used to have some great posts, until you took on the "middle-aged men who like fast cars" coalition.
And again, how does a college kid writing an experimental EFI become so threatening that you need to insult and offend people?
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