MP 7,1 Upgrade internal SSD on 2019 Mac Pro?

[cobra521]

I have a 1TB Apple SSD kit for the 2019 Mac Pro 7,1. If anyone's still interested, I can post it in the For Sale forum on MacRumors. It's surplus to me since I replaced it with a larger set some time ago.

Tom

EDIT: The SSDs have been posted here in the For Sale Forum.

 

[bcomer]

Has there been any feedback from Apple on this disgraceful issue?

I need to reboot my machine numerous time to mount a couple drive that were working fine.

 

[profdraper]

With a fair bit of messing around actually. Macs can be a pain in the butt sometimes. I had to go through the trial and error of corrupted boot discs and a few reinstalls while learning which SSDs and what cards work.

One slot houses a Sonnet Silent M.2 4x4 at the moment, so far with no issues. Booting is from a Corsair 2TB M600 Pro NH.
A second slot is taken up by a 2TB Sabrent SB-RKT4P on a StarTech.com Dual M.2 PCIe SSD Adapter Card as apparently the Sonnet won't boot Windows.
Aside from that I have 2 GPUs. The 580X and a 1070 that I'm looking to upgrade but Oh man, THE PRICES!!!!

Obviously all drives are mounted when the MAC boots but I immediately unmount any drive that I won't be using and remount/unmount as necessary.

And the problem with this route presently is Sonoma & which is a real PITA with mounting external drives (many threads about that elsewhere). However, I see this mac is a 5.1 & so Sonoma won't be 'a thing' ... but on the 7.1 it drives me nuts.

Disks not mounted

I really really don't know why I am continuousally fooled to update since EVERY Apple update is a regression of functionality. With Sonoma, my three (3) external encrypted disks are not mounting, and nothing will make them do so. What gives?

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Sonoma won't mount external drives

This has also been the only consistent & reliable way to reconnect my External Drives. Have to shut down, then disconnect drives, then startup & login, then reconnect each drive one at a time while entering the Password for each as it prompts... If it wasn't for having so many other random...

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Mounted Disk Images, Yet Doesn't Appear on the Finder?

Hello Apple & Mac friends. What are these mounted Disk Images that doesn't appear on the Finder and what are they for?

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Sonoma won't mount external drives

Thanks for your help. I can see the external drive listed on the left hand side. It is greyed out. When I right click the drive and select mount, I get the following message: Could not mount “Seagate Backup Plus Drive”. Any suggestions?

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[H2SO4]

And the problem with this route presently is Sonoma & which is a real PITA with mounting external drives (many threads about that elsewhere). However, I see this mac is a 5.1 & so Sonoma won't be 'a thing' ... but on the 7.1 it drives me nuts.

Disks not mounted

I really really don't know why I am continuousally fooled to update since EVERY Apple update is a regression of functionality. With Sonoma, my three (3) external encrypted disks are not mounting, and nothing will make them do so. What gives?

forums.macrumors.com

Sonoma won't mount external drives

This has also been the only consistent & reliable way to reconnect my External Drives. Have to shut down, then disconnect drives, then startup & login, then reconnect each drive one at a time while entering the Password for each as it prompts... If it wasn't for having so many other random...

forums.macrumors.com

Mounted Disk Images, Yet Doesn't Appear on the Finder?

Hello Apple & Mac friends. What are these mounted Disk Images that doesn't appear on the Finder and what are they for?

forums.macrumors.com

Sonoma won't mount external drives

Thanks for your help. I can see the external drive listed on the left hand side. It is greyed out. When I right click the drive and select mount, I get the following message: Could not mount “Seagate Backup Plus Drive”. Any suggestions?

forums.macrumors.com

I am more confident that people here will fix this with a hack than I am that Apple will do it with an official fix.

 

[Norbert Mikołajczyk]

I am more confident that people here will fix this with a hack than I am that Apple will do it with an official fix.

Sequoia fixed the mounting problems with my nvme drives on startup.

 

[H2SO4]

Sequoia fixed the mounting problems with my nvme drives on startup.

Is great news, am more than happy to have been proven wrong.

 

[Jose Skertchly]

True, but if your apple SSD fails one day you will need another apple pair or your mac pro is a doorstop. Mine is at 98% as it was since i got it SH and i'm not too concerned at the moment

How can you see the remaining life of the OEM SSD?, thanks!

 

[tsialex]

How can you see the remaining life of the OEM SSD?, thanks!

DriveDx - the most advanced drive health diagnostics and monitoring utility

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www.binaryfruit.com

 

[Jose Skertchly]

DriveDx - the most advanced drive health diagnostics and monitoring utility

DriveDx - the most advanced drive health (S.M.A.R.T.) diagnostics and monitoring utility. Save yourself the data loss and downtime that is associated with unexpected SSD and HDD failures. Don't worry about losing your important data, music, and photographs.

www.binaryfruit.com

Thanks!

 

[H2SO4]

DriveDx - the most advanced drive health diagnostics and monitoring utility

DriveDx - the most advanced drive health (S.M.A.R.T.) diagnostics and monitoring utility. Save yourself the data loss and downtime that is associated with unexpected SSD and HDD failures. Don't worry about losing your important data, music, and photographs.

www.binaryfruit.com

Thanks for that, just downloaded it.