Hello.
I installed the Titan Ridge to my Mac Pro 5.1 running Catalina. The card is at the pci slot 4. It's properly flashed and it shows at the system information just fine. I downloaded and installed the drivers, blessed the Open Core and when I connect an nvme usb c disk do the Titan Ridge, it works just fine.
I recently bought Mac Mini M2 Pro and I want to connect it to Mac Pro 5.1 using thunderbolt brodge, so I can uste my Mac pro as a storage server. I tried everything such as DHCP, Manually typing the ip addresses but I didn't het them to see each other. I both the Titan Ridge just for this purpose, to be able to access the Mac pro disks via thunderbolt bridge.
Can someone help please?
Best Regards,
Tino
In the PC World about 30 years ago there used to be only a very limited number of how to connect systems. Either a classic network with RJ45 / CAT cables or special solutions like a PC to PC via crossover cable. This golden rule has not changed much. Only a view more special solutions, mostly proprietary have been added. However no special solution ever made it to replace the gold standard - Network via CAT/RJ45 cabling.
The Thunderbolt solution was never intended to connect PC's. Its sole intention was to allow more bandwidth compared to USB & Firewire for faster data transfer between PCI add-on / plug-in cards / GPUs to the CPU mainframe peripherals.
This means, if you want to network your MP5.1 with a Mac mini, you should go the traditional route and use the classical Ethernet platform. Go for an Ethernet switch, use an older (and budget friendly) Apple Time Capsule with Ethernet switch option and avoid this Thunderbolt stuff when it comes to Networking and Server Applications. NAS Solutions such as Synology, Netgear or Lacie are your friends. Believe me, you don't want to wast your time in setting up Thunderbolt stuff other than the intended usage. At least that's my experience so far.
One of my personal favorite third party is this one here. They have a dedicated section when it comes to networking.
Check out their solutions. There are many options that will work with your MP5.1 full support.
Single and dual-port 25GbE, 10GbE, 2.5GbE, and AVB Ethernet Thunderbolt networking adapters and PCIe cards for Mac, Windows and Linux computers with Thunderbolt 4 or 3 ports.
www.sonnettech.com
@joevt:
When it comes to brand new computers and devices after manufacturing year 2020, you are completely correct.
There are some new use cases with that Thunderbolt stuff that may work under special circumstances. Of course Apple wants you imprisoned in their Walled Garden of expensive, propriatery world of new toys.
Still, the traditional network approach is the old world, showed in the link above.
