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MP 1,1-5,1 PCIe NVMe in 5,1 Mac Pro - Recommendations?
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If I would buy today, I would get this: Sonnet Technologies McFiver PCIe Card G10E-USBC-M2-E
Clearly designed for the "Grater!"
I almost bought this anyway, but since I already have a USB 3.2 card and do not need extra slots or capacity I caught myself.
Clearly designed for the "Grater!"
I almost bought this anyway, but since I already have a USB 3.2 card and do not need extra slots or capacity I caught myself.
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That is showing up at just shy of $400 for me, which is more than the 5,1 is worth these days.
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Background:
I've got a 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 flashed to 5,1 running the latest 144 firmware.
I recently purchased a Highpoint R1104 (Rocket 1104) so that I can utlize the second NVME drive I bought over Christmas.
I am currently using a Crucial P3 Plus 2TB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 5000MB/s - CT2000P3PSSD8 to run Mojave.
And my second drive is a Team Group MP34 M.2 2280 4TB PCIe 3.0 x4 with NVMe 1.3 3D NAND. And I planned to use it as a scratch drive.
For some reason, I get really great R/W on my Crucial drive when benchmarking (~2300-2400 MBps RW) but the Team drive only gets 600-700 MBps.
I'm struggling trying to troubleshoot the situation.
When I had both these drives in a buddies dual NVME PCIE adapter (I don't remember the name but its controller chip was a ASM2812), both drives register at close to 1500-1800 MBps.
Each drive by itself on my basic 4 lane nvme pcie adapter get ~1500 MBPS.
Is it the adapter?
Do I there something I need to my mac pro to allow BOTH drives to run at 2000-3000 MBps?
I'm at a loss.
I've got a 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 flashed to 5,1 running the latest 144 firmware.
I recently purchased a Highpoint R1104 (Rocket 1104) so that I can utlize the second NVME drive I bought over Christmas.
I am currently using a Crucial P3 Plus 2TB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 5000MB/s - CT2000P3PSSD8 to run Mojave.
And my second drive is a Team Group MP34 M.2 2280 4TB PCIe 3.0 x4 with NVMe 1.3 3D NAND. And I planned to use it as a scratch drive.
For some reason, I get really great R/W on my Crucial drive when benchmarking (~2300-2400 MBps RW) but the Team drive only gets 600-700 MBps.
I'm struggling trying to troubleshoot the situation.
When I had both these drives in a buddies dual NVME PCIE adapter (I don't remember the name but its controller chip was a ASM2812), both drives register at close to 1500-1800 MBps.
Each drive by itself on my basic 4 lane nvme pcie adapter get ~1500 MBPS.
Is it the adapter?
Do I there something I need to my mac pro to allow BOTH drives to run at 2000-3000 MBps?
I'm at a loss.
Probably is a combo, blade firmware that does not like the PCIe switch from the Rocket 1104, the PCIe v2.0 of the Mac Pro or even the Mac Pro firmware - difficult to know what really is.
There are several reports of issues like that in the past for different blades and that's the reason we have a list of tested blades that work.
PCIe SSDs - NVMe & AHCI
This is a general info thread for blade SSDs that can be used in the Mac Pro. This is a WikiPost so anyone with the proper credentials may edit it. NVMe SSDs can be used as a boot drive in the MP5,1 and MP6,1 with the latest firmware installed (beginning with version 140.0.0.0.0 for MP5,1 and...
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It's a 14 years old Mac, somethings just doesn't work as expected and you have to find the things that do work.
After checking if there is a firmware upgrade for the blade, you will have to try to find a more compatible combo of blade/adapter.