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Sonnet Tech Tempo SSD Pro Plus or Velocity Duo x2
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Not much to the Sintech adapter but a card with a connector on it.
There are several readily available Apple PCI SSDs on eBay which are more reasonably priced than the brief availability (at over $1000) of the 1.4GBs parts mentioned (MZ-KPV1T00/0A2) which have not been available since.
Mine is a MZ-KPU1TOT/0A2 as I recall. There is a list of recommended ones somewhere in that thread.
Yes, i am one of 22 lucky owners of that next generation SSD blade. When i bought it in October i was not aware of what i bought.
Read my posts from page 13 to 15 in this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=20132731#post20132731
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I read them.... 1.2GBytes per sec write and 1.4GBytes per second read is phenomenal numbers and provided the 5,1 cMP with the 2015 generation SSD blade performance may potentially double that.
Only if you have two SSD blades, one in Slot 2, and the other 3 or 4.
The total bandwidth of PCI-Express 2.0 with 4 lanes tops around 1500MB/s:http://www.barefeats.com/hard183.html
However, 10-bit transporting only 8 bits, the speed drops to ~ 1420 MB/s.
I' guess my SSD blade could be even faster, if i had PCI-Express 3.0 (with 4 lanes) in my Mac Pro.
Question: Are you using Network Link Aggregation? I find out, i dont get a boot menu with aktive Link Aggregation.
If someone has a Tempo and Link Aggregation enabled, pull the network cables and test for the boot menu.
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Sonnet Tempo Pro Plus Problem
I have a dual 6 core 5.1 MacPro with 96 GB of RAM and four 6 TB internal SATA drives. I installed a Sonnet Tempo Pro Plus PCI card with 2 Samsung 1 TB EVO SSD drives into slot 2. I was able to boot in Mac OS 10.6 and 10.9 and all 6 drives initially mounted. I installed10.9 on one of the Samsung drives and when I boot from that drive none of my internal SATA drives mount. They are not identified with disc utility. I have to remove the card and restart then all my internal SATA drives are mounted then I have to shut down and reinstall the Sonnet PCI card and reboot from the internal SATA and all 6 drives appear. I erased 10.9 from the SSD drive and I can restart and the 4 internal SATA drives, the two SSD drives on the Tempo card and an external 2 TB SATA drive attached to the Tempo card all mount. I have not been able to boot in 10.9 from a SSD drive on the Tempo card without it disabling my internal SATA bus. I am awaiting an answer from Sonnet but I cannot believe that they were unaware of this issue. The whole point of the Tempo card and 2 SSD drives was to boot from these SSDs.
I have a dual 6 core 5.1 MacPro with 96 GB of RAM and four 6 TB internal SATA drives. I installed a Sonnet Tempo Pro Plus PCI card with 2 Samsung 1 TB EVO SSD drives into slot 2. I was able to boot in Mac OS 10.6 and 10.9 and all 6 drives initially mounted. I installed10.9 on one of the Samsung drives and when I boot from that drive none of my internal SATA drives mount. They are not identified with disc utility. I have to remove the card and restart then all my internal SATA drives are mounted then I have to shut down and reinstall the Sonnet PCI card and reboot from the internal SATA and all 6 drives appear. I erased 10.9 from the SSD drive and I can restart and the 4 internal SATA drives, the two SSD drives on the Tempo card and an external 2 TB SATA drive attached to the Tempo card all mount. I have not been able to boot in 10.9 from a SSD drive on the Tempo card without it disabling my internal SATA bus. I am awaiting an answer from Sonnet but I cannot believe that they were unaware of this issue. The whole point of the Tempo card and 2 SSD drives was to boot from these SSDs.
Tempo Pro Plus Bootable SSD Mac OS 10.9- my solution
My system: MacPro 5.1 12 core 96 GB RAM 4 internal 6TB HGST drives Mac OS 10.9 Tempo Pro Plus (firmware updated by me) with 2 Samsung EVO 1TB SSD
I called Sonnet Tech 1 week ago and explained that when I booted my MacPro 5.1 using MacOS 10.9 from an SSD on the Tempo that my four 6 TB drives on my internal SATA bus would not mount. When I restarted from my SATA drive only that single drive mounted as the start up drive then the two SSDs mounted but my other 3 SATA internal drives did not mount. You told me that you had not heard of this before. I appear to have solved the problem.
The next paragraph explains what I did to figure out the solution. You may skip to the third paragraph for the short answer.
I erased 10.9 from the SSD drive and placed it in an Icy Dock adapter and put it in bay 3 of my MacPro and removed the Tempo card. I then installed a fresh OS 10.9 on the SSD in the SATA bus. When I restarted from the SSD in the #3 bay I found that my #1 and #2 bay SATA drives mounted but not #4. I then moved the SSD to bay #4 and restarted from the SSD and all of my drives in bays 1,2,&3 mounted. It appears that the position of the SSD with a bootable copy of OS 10.9 prevents the subsequent SATA drives from mounting. I put the SSD drive back on the Tempo card in PCI slot #2 which is a 12X slot and restarted from the SSD drive and only the 2 SSDs mounted. I removed the card restarted from my SATA drive and all 4 internal SATA drives again mounted. I reinstalled the Tempo card and restarted from the same #1 SATA drive and only the #1 SATA Boot Drive mounted and the 2 SSDs but not SATA drives 2,3, or 4.
I realized that I had to delay the mounting of the SSD drive with a bootable OS 10.9 so I put the Tempo card in the 2X PCI slot.
Everything now works. I start up and I have the choice of booting from either the SSD or the Internal SATA (they have different start up icons and names) and then all four internal SATA 6TB drives mount, both SSDs mount and an external 2TB eSATA (with a bootable copy of OS 10.6 which is attached to the Tempo card) mounts.
Start up is not as fast as it was with the SSD in the #4 internal eSATA bay with the adapter but if I boot from the SSD all of the processes run faster such as installing large program files i.e. Final Cut Pro and Logic.
So that 's it. If you want to use the SSD on the Tempo Pro Plus card as a boot volume then:
1) Install OSX on to the SSD (to be used in the Tempo card) in an internal SATA bay using an adapter.
2) Mount the SSD on the Tempo card and install the card in a 2X PCI slot and NOT the 12X slot.
My system: MacPro 5.1 12 core 96 GB RAM 4 internal 6TB HGST drives Mac OS 10.9 Tempo Pro Plus (firmware updated by me) with 2 Samsung EVO 1TB SSD
I called Sonnet Tech 1 week ago and explained that when I booted my MacPro 5.1 using MacOS 10.9 from an SSD on the Tempo that my four 6 TB drives on my internal SATA bus would not mount. When I restarted from my SATA drive only that single drive mounted as the start up drive then the two SSDs mounted but my other 3 SATA internal drives did not mount. You told me that you had not heard of this before. I appear to have solved the problem.
The next paragraph explains what I did to figure out the solution. You may skip to the third paragraph for the short answer.
I erased 10.9 from the SSD drive and placed it in an Icy Dock adapter and put it in bay 3 of my MacPro and removed the Tempo card. I then installed a fresh OS 10.9 on the SSD in the SATA bus. When I restarted from the SSD in the #3 bay I found that my #1 and #2 bay SATA drives mounted but not #4. I then moved the SSD to bay #4 and restarted from the SSD and all of my drives in bays 1,2,&3 mounted. It appears that the position of the SSD with a bootable copy of OS 10.9 prevents the subsequent SATA drives from mounting. I put the SSD drive back on the Tempo card in PCI slot #2 which is a 12X slot and restarted from the SSD drive and only the 2 SSDs mounted. I removed the card restarted from my SATA drive and all 4 internal SATA drives again mounted. I reinstalled the Tempo card and restarted from the same #1 SATA drive and only the #1 SATA Boot Drive mounted and the 2 SSDs but not SATA drives 2,3, or 4.
I realized that I had to delay the mounting of the SSD drive with a bootable OS 10.9 so I put the Tempo card in the 2X PCI slot.
Everything now works. I start up and I have the choice of booting from either the SSD or the Internal SATA (they have different start up icons and names) and then all four internal SATA 6TB drives mount, both SSDs mount and an external 2TB eSATA (with a bootable copy of OS 10.6 which is attached to the Tempo card) mounts.
Start up is not as fast as it was with the SSD in the #4 internal eSATA bay with the adapter but if I boot from the SSD all of the processes run faster such as installing large program files i.e. Final Cut Pro and Logic.
So that 's it. If you want to use the SSD on the Tempo Pro Plus card as a boot volume then:
1) Install OSX on to the SSD (to be used in the Tempo card) in an internal SATA bay using an adapter.
2) Mount the SSD on the Tempo card and install the card in a 2X PCI slot and NOT the 12X slot.