Always Samsung they are available in up to 8 TB of capacity. I have 6 Samsung EVO's 250GB to 2TB some have been in use for 6 years with zero problems.What SSD drives would you consider in terms of optimal price / reliability ratio, dear experts?
Always Samsung they are available in up to 8 TB of capacity. I have 6 Samsung EVO's 250GB to 2TB some have been in use for 6 years with zero problems.What SSD drives would you consider in terms of optimal price / reliability ratio, dear experts?
Holy Flashback Batman! I was an IBM Customer Engineer, and this was one of the last products I worked on before I went into other jobs within the company.Here is a little bit of history for you. I just purchased a 1TB SD card for my Studio. You all know the size of an SDCX card. Here is a photo of the first 2.5 GB HDD, and IBM 3380 it was introduced in 1980. I have the motor off of one of these, it weighs 90 pounds.
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Just get a Seagate Hub, I have a 14 TB version of it on My Mac Studio works great. You can do what I now would have done had I had the knowledge at the time. The Seagate is formatted in exFat so both a Mac, and a PC can read and write it. But now since I am only going to use this drive on the MS I should have formatted it in APFS. Too late now I have about 10GB's loaded on it. Samsung has it SSD's on sale and the 8TB SSD is $449.99. I have a 4TB version formatted in APFS in an external case and it is considerably faster than the Seagate. You cannot plug it directly into the MS but plugged in via a power USB hub is works great. Of course you could simply put your SSD's in external enclosures Like I did with the 4TB SSD.I’m considering swapping my 2019 Mac Pro for a Mac Studio ‘23 but I currently have a sonnet 4x4 raid card with 4x 2TB Samsung Evos installed plus an extra 2TB on a single pci Adapter.
Im willing to sacrifice that single blade but the other four would be great to keep together in some external raid enclosure with TB4- I’m aware of the loss in speed but 2500mb/s should still be enough honestly. Any thoughts?
That just near the higher end of the opening temperature, so you have little room. I using a OWC thunderbay4 mini. It's slower because it used SATA drives but it has a fan and keeps my disk at 21C.Acasis thunderbolt enclosure
Anything in a Thunderbolt enclosure will report back to the Mac as a proper PCIe device. From a hardware level, the RAID card would continue to work but I can't vouch for any drivers being Apple Silicon compatible. I have a two NVMe drives in a RAID 0 in a Sabrent Dual Enclosure over thunderbolt with the array being managed by macOS. So that works, and I would recommend getting a drive enclosure rather than a PCIe chassis in your case for cost and simplicity.Will my 2 year old HighPoint raid card (which is in my classic mac 5,1) work well in an external PCI box hung off a Mac Studio? Currently its got two 2TB NVME cards in raid format ... the Raid is run by the Mac's Disk utility. The classic still boots from an internal SSD.
Will a Studio's disk utility run an external Raid? Even if it did, would the bottleneck of the thunderbolt port make RAID speed not worthwhile?
Thanks for the reply.Anything in a Thunderbolt enclosure will report back to the Mac as a proper PCIe device. From a hardware level, the RAID card would continue to work but I can't vouch for any drivers being Apple Silicon compatible. I have a two NVMe drives in a RAID 0 in a Sabrent Dual Enclosure over thunderbolt with the array being managed by macOS. So that works, and I would recommend getting a drive enclosure rather than a PCIe chassis in your case for cost and simplicity.
My external NVMe drives are actually slowed down by being in RAID as the Thunderbolt bus is a bottleneck and they have to deal with RAID overhead. They would be faster as separate drives in separate enclosures. I already had the drives from my previous hackintosh and this was a solution intended for capacity and good enough performance.
A relative of mine bought an Areca 8TB TB4 RAID unit last year for his Mac Studio. It works totally fine under Monterey, so I would say yes the drivers (for Areca at least) work fine under Apple Silicon. As for Highpoint, it would be interesting to see if they will release new drivers for their existing range of cards for the 2023 Mac Pro.Anything in a Thunderbolt enclosure will report back to the Mac as a proper PCIe device. From a hardware level, the RAID card would continue to work but I can't vouch for any drivers being Apple Silicon compatible. I have a two NVMe drives in a RAID 0 in a Sabrent Dual Enclosure over thunderbolt with the array being managed by macOS. So that works, and I would recommend getting a drive enclosure rather than a PCIe chassis in your case for cost and simplicity.
My external NVMe drives are actually slowed down by being in RAID as the Thunderbolt bus is a bottleneck and they have to deal with RAID overhead. They would be faster as separate drives in separate enclosures. I already had the drives from my previous hackintosh and this was a solution intended for capacity and good enough performance.
What will be cost of getting iCloud for 12TB drive sync ? Do you think it will be practical solution ? I keep two drives attached and do CCC job of copying from drive A to Drive B everyweek, this way in case of failure on drive 1 there is drive 2 to work with, yes in case of house burns down or something catastrophic thing happens to my area I wont have any data from external drives, but for most important data that is in my documents/pictures folder (only family pics) I can always sync it to my OneDrive as Office 365 provides me with 1TB of online storage and that is sufficient for it. For rest of client work, most of work that is delivered stays online on my smugmug gallery. So iCloud - although good, it can become pricey for storing larger amount of data.I wish there was a way to sync an external storage device to my iCloud. From what I can tell it is not currently possible. Am I missing something?
What will be cost of getting iCloud for 12TB drive sync ? Do you think it will be practical solution ? I keep two drives attached and do CCC job of copying from drive A to Drive B everyweek, this way in case of failure on drive 1 there is drive 2 to work with, yes in case of house burns down or something catastrophic thing happens to my area I wont have any data from external drives, but for most important data that is in my documents/pictures folder (only family pics) I can always sync it to my OneDrive as Office 365 provides me with 1TB of online storage and that is sufficient for it. For rest of client work, most of work that is delivered stays online on my smugmug gallery. So iCloud - although good, it can become pricey for storing larger amount of data.
A relative of mine bought an Areca 8TB TB4 RAID unit last year for his Mac Studio. It works totally fine under Monterey, so I would say yes the drivers (for Areca at least) work fine under Apple Silicon. As for Highpoint, it would be interesting to see if they will release new drivers for their existing range of cards for the 2023 Mac Pro.
Anything in a Thunderbolt enclosure will report back to the Mac as a proper PCIe device. From a hardware level, the RAID card would continue to work but I can't vouch for any drivers being Apple Silicon compatible. I have a two NVMe drives in a RAID 0 in a Sabrent Dual Enclosure over thunderbolt with the array being managed by macOS. So that works, and I would recommend getting a drive enclosure rather than a PCIe chassis in your case for cost and simplicity.
My external NVMe drives are actually slowed down by being in RAID as the Thunderbolt bus is a bottleneck and they have to deal with RAID overhead. They would be faster as separate drives in separate enclosures. I already had the drives from my previous hackintosh and this was a solution intended for capacity and good enough performance.
I now use a Samsung 980 Pro instead of the EVO 970 plus in the Acasis. Temperature was significantly lower after putting the enclosure on the Mac Studio. It is now not hot anymore. Problem solved.I have an Acasis thunderbolt enclosure with a Samsung EVO 970. It runs way too hot: 155°F. I doubt whether this will be reliable in the long term. Samsung told me that their Ssds are only internally in the computer supported.
Yes, they use bigger capacity NAND chips but fewer. You can see it doesn't matter in any real workflows as the two last lines show you. Random read and write are basically the same.RAID 0, 2x: TEAMGROUP T-Force CARDEA Zero Z440 2TB in ACASIS TBU401 Enclosures
Total cost was $378 (no sales tax in OR).
This is on an M2 Studio.
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Internal seems kinda slow now (M2 Internal SSD):
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Just went back to the M1 Studio and am getting intended results on the Internal SSD.
Did Apple split the SSD up on the M1 and not on the M2 like the MacBooks???
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I contacted High Point who got back very quickly.
They confirmed that their highest speed with an external enclosure (they sell a RS6661A external Thunderbolt 3 PCI adapter) with the SSD7101A-1 RAID card was 2800 Mb/sec. The bottleneck being due to Thunderbolt. They did not recommend using the Apple RAID software - rather recommended using their own. So that would work OK I guess. Hence I don't think the Mac itself would slow down when using an external RAID PCI Card enclosure with a RAID card like the SSD7101A-1.
They did not confirm that their High Point SSD7101A-1 RAID card would work in the new Mac Pro. I have since asked them whether the new Mac Pro will handle the SSD7101A-1 RAID card - but I did tell them I was not going to buy such a Mac Pro!! They did say the 2019 Mac Pro works ... but did not say if the 8,1 M processor version works ... I presume they do not yet know.