Plextor M6e for mac pro 2008

[vicentk]

May I know dose it support to be a boot driver ?

I know OWC had some product can.

Plextor M6e 512GB PX-AG512M6e PCI-Ex4 SSD

 

[vicentk]

after I'm found some information it seem support : The M6e also supports UEFI boot mode for motherboards with UEFI to provide fast start-up times. The M6e has a MTBF of 2.4 million hours and comes with a five years warranty.

May I know did OSX using UEFI ?

 

[vicentk]

Finally I'm bought one 512GB today, after install it fine and bootable.

Did anyone know which test software can test the speed ?

 

[vicentk]

After the installation I'm start the clean re-install the OSX

 

[vicentk]

some test for reference

 

[666sheep]

Your Xbench score is extremely low, this drive is capable of about 700MB/s R/W. Try another benchmark like Blackmagic (free) or Quickbench (paid).

Anyway thanks for sharing this. How much is it, if you don't mind asking? Seems that ATM it's only available in HK.

Edit: I see why the benchmark numbers are low: you've put the card in slot 3 which in 3,1 is PCIe 1.0 x4. Card has x4 connector but its Marvell controller is only x2. So in slots 3 and 4 you can achieve ~400MB/s max (due to 8b/10b encoding). Put the card in slot 2 to run the drive at full speed.

 

[vicentk]

Thanks your information first.

512GB in HK is around USD500.

May I know if I move the card to other slot do I need to reinstall?

 

[TzunamiOSX]

Your Xbench score is extremely low, this drive is capable of about 700MB/s R/W. Try another benchmark like Blackmagic (free) or Quickbench (paid).

Anyway thanks for sharing this. How much is it, if you don't mind asking? Seems that ATM it's only available in HK.

Edit: I see why the benchmark numbers are low: you've put the card in slot 3 which in 3,1 is PCIe 1.0 x4. Card has x4 connector but its Marvell controller is only x2. So in slots 3 and 4 you can achieve ~400MB/s max (due to 8b/10b encoding). Put the card in slot 2 to run the drive at full speed.

The card is in a PCIe 1.0 Slot of the Mac Pro 2008. Put it to the slot near the GPU (Slot 2).

 

[vicentk]

Thank all and will change the slot today, after will test one more time.

 

[vicentk]

Dear All

After I'm move to slot 2 the speed it seem double.

 

[666sheep]

That's better
Another question: I saw MPX-3132 in your Airport slot (but no SATA cables connected to it). Do you use it? What speed does it deliver if so? I know that it's SATA II but I'm curious about real world transfers, especially with SSDs. If it would saturate SATA II bus, it would be nice.

 

[vicentk]

That's better
Another question: I saw MPX-3132 in your Airport slot (but no SATA cables connected to it). Do you use it? What speed does it deliver if so? I know that it's SATA II but I'm curious about real world transfers, especially with SSDs. If it would saturate SATA II bus, it would be nice.

you so smart, this card I'm bought it around 2 years ago, in past I'm just use for windows driver. As my remember it just SATA2 and in past 2 years the ssd is too expensive, so I'm never try any ssd on it and in my experience it not much stable, sometime Mac can't the Windows Drive, so I'm give up and use boot camp again.

Some history : in past I'm had a software raid by 4 hdd disk and 1 hdd for windows.

 

[moutian]

I installed the 128g version of the card on my 2009 mac pro, but the benchmark is somehow different.

 

[vicentk]

I installed the 128g version of the card on my 2009 mac pro, but the benchmark is somehow different.

http://www.plextoramericas.com/index.php/component/content/article/236-m6e?start=1

Because the buffer is different, so it should had somehow different.