What's occupying your PCI-e slots?

[Handegard]

#1 GTX 680 FTW 4gb
#2 empty
#3 USB3 card
#4 Samsung 970 Pro

 

[zedex]

2012 12-core dual 3.46 GHz 64GB

1. Vega 64 (to be replaced by RX 590)
2. Amfeltec PCIe RAID 0 NVMe
3. Sonnet 10GbE card connected to RAID 5 NAS
4. RocketRAID internal SAS SSD RAID 0

@XNorth - would you mind letting me know which 'model' RocketRAID card you are running..(i.e. RR640, RR2740, RR2760A)? I want to know if the 'SUDO TRIM ENABLE' command works on SSDs connected to these Highpoint cards?

 

[jscipione]

1. MSI RX 580 8GB
2. Amfeltec squid v2 with quad 256gb SM951 AHCI SSD RAID 0
3. Sonnet Pro USB 3 card
4. Kingston HyperX Pedator 240 GB

Also a pair of 6TB disks, another pair of 3TB disks, an LG WH14NS40 bluray burner, and soon an Asus BW-16D1HT (another bluray burner).

 

[InuNacho]

1. GTX 680 2GB
2. KT4004
3. BlackMagic Intensity Pro
4. OWC 2.5mm drive adapter

Also, why does my system report give me this error?

 

[AidenShaw]

4. OWC 2.5mm drive adapter

that's a tiny drive!

 

[Fangio]

Some progress here

Config (in 2014)
4. Apple Raid Card Sata2
3. Velocity Solo x2 Sata3, Samsung 830 256GB boot drive
2. ORICO PFU3-2P x1 USB3 2-Port
1. R9 280X

now it's
4. Inatek KT4004 x1 USB3 4-Port
3. Velocity Solo x2 Sata3, Samsung 840 1TB
2. kryoM.2 evo x4 NVMe, Samsung 970 Pro 512GB boot drive
1. R9 280X

 

[XNorth]

@XNorth - would you mind letting me know which 'model' RocketRAID card you are running..(i.e. RR640, RR2740, RR2760A)? I want to know if the 'SUDO TRIM ENABLE' command works on SSDs connected to these Highpoint cards?

It's a RocketRaid 2721 connected to an SAS Icy Dock enclosure in the optical drive, with 4 Samsung EVO 860 in RAID 0. Read and write above 1000MB/s.

 

[zedex]

It's a RocketRaid 2721 connected to an SAS Icy Dock enclosure in the optical drive, with 4 Samsung EVO 860 in RAID 0. Read and write above 1000MB/s.

NOW WE'RE TALKING!! That's pretty much exactly what I wanna do - I'll see what I can find out from the info supplied above but if you could tell me the model number of the ICY DOCK enclosure (or just a google searchable product description) I would be most grateful - THANKS MAN!!

 

[-hh]

(back in 2013):

MP#2:

1. ATI-5770
2. OWC Mercury Accelsior SSD (240GB)
3. (reserved for USB3 card; TBD)
4. empty

1. SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
2. Second generation Mercury Accelsior E2 (480GB)
3. Got that USB3 card, but have since replaced with a 2-port Sonnet USB-C card
4. OWC Accelsior S with a 512GB SATA3 SSD

And currently cross-comparing Blackmagic benchmarks from a MyDigitalSSD M2X M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure with a Crucial 1TB M.2 off of the USB-C on both this MP and a MBP...

 

[someoldguy]

1: GT640 4 GB MVC flashed
2: Intel 660 1 TB on a Cryo M.2 card
3: Velocity Solo w/2TB Seagate laptop drive (Time Machine)
4: Sonnet Allegro USB3 4 port

MP4.1>5.1 , 2x X5680 , 32GB , 3TB WD (Archive) , 2TB WD (Images) , 1TB WD (Documents) , 512 GB Crucial M100 (Boot Camp)

 

[XNorth]

NOW WE'RE TALKING!! That's pretty much exactly what I wanna do - I'll see what I can find out from the info supplied above but if you could tell me the model number of the ICY DOCK enclosure (or just a google searchable product description) I would be most grateful - THANKS MAN!!

The enclosure is the Icy Dock ToughArmor MB607SP-B 4-bay SSD enclosure found on Amazon. (Don't get the cheaper plastic ExpressCage). It's 5.25" and fits perfectly into the optical drive sled. I use a 1.5 ft mini-SAS to SATA breakout cable to connect to the RocketRAID card.



The enclosure is powered by a 15-pin SATA power extension cable connected to the optical drive power cable. Clip off the smaller plastic tab on the 15-pin SATA extension to fit it to the power cable...see the last image of post #13 for illustration.



Something to note: Putting the SSD enclosure in the optical bay requires a way to route the mini-SAS cable to the RAID card. For my setup, I was willing to remove the entire PCIe fan and CPU housing and cut a hole into the optical bay, just to feed the mini-SAS cable through from the PCIe card. I don't recommend this method. I did it for the challenge .



It's way easier -- less risk of damaging the mobo with a Dremel and flying metal bits -- to remove the plate covering the power supply cable in the optical bay. Then route a longer mini-SAS cable from underneath through the corner gap.

EDIT: Barefeats shows how to double stack the SSDs in the HDD slots and connect them to a RocketRAID card.

 

[yeti]

Slot 1: Sapphire RX 580 8GB
Slot 2: Adwits NVMe to PCIe 16x adapter with Sabrent Rocket NVMe 1TB SSD (SB-ROCKET-1TB)
Slot 3: ST-Lab N-480 GBase-T Ethernet Card (Chip Tehuti TN-4010 10G/5G/2,5G/1G)
Slot 4: OWC Accelsior S SATA to PCIe 4x adapter card with Samsung 870 EVO SATA-III SSD

 

[m4v3r1ck]

UPDATE cMP 5.1

#1. Nvidia GTX-680-4GB-FTW flashed with MacRumors ROM, thanks guys!

#2. Apricorn Velocity DUO x2 - 1TB & 500GB Samsung 840 EVO

#3. Apricorn Velocity DUO x2 - 500GB & 500GB Samsung 840 EVO

#4. CalDigit FastPro eSATA & USB 3.0

Still running like clockwork!

Cheers

Still running this hardware configuration YTD 11/26/2023 macOS 12.7.1 + macOS 13.6.1 - OCLP 0.6.8