HKC Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Hi there I will most likely buy one of the new, fast but very pricey, Mac Pros. I am looking at the 12 core version. I am however not that impressed with the price of upgrading the system drive to 2 TBs. It must be possible to use a third ware disk for this.....or what. All the best Henrik Krogh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 It looks though Apple uses a proprietary connector, so no 3rd party option: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/10/apple-is-using-a-custom-connector-for-the-ssd-in-the-new-mac-pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKC Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 Which means that I won't get a new Mac Pro until the 3rdware guys come up with a cheaper solution....damn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ploki Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Which means that I won't get a new Mac Pro until the 3rdware guys come up with a cheaper solution....damn Aint gonna happen. - drive is tied to the T2 chip which doubles as a controller, which means you need to re-calibrate the system to the new drives. - the drive is not a "drive" it's just controller-less NAND. - would've already happened for the most likely more widely adopted iMac Pro, and it didn't on the other hand, why not just use one PCIe slot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelonyc Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 OWC carries Mac stuff. You could possibly buy a SSD replacement for what you're using now. They most likely will be the company to carry larger SSD for new Mac Pro, when Apple decides (if they do). l want/need a new Mac. Unfortunately I think there are a significant # of users (like us here) who need more power, but can't justify the price of a new Mac Pro.. 256 GB SSD is pretty stingy. especially when so many companies want their data on the system drive. I'd like to buy a new computer, but with the additional specs I want, can't afford it. Idea of a 'hackintosh', but then you have to be somewhat talented in that area, to deal with updates, etc. Looking into a VEP set-up. Relieves computer of a lot of work. Would be able to get more milage out of old system. You can make symbolic links for your system drive to offload some stuff. I bought a 1TB SSD in 2015 mac pro. I got enough space to do projects on it, then I offload to a raid system for storage. Good luck I read of one guy proposing to buy a 2 TB drive, put in one of TB3 busses and boot off of that, (but he wasn't sure if you can do that with the new mac pro.. You'd have to check to see if that works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ploki Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 You absolutely can, you can also use a PCIe drive. And as i said, there won't be a third party primary drive for Mac Pro, just as it wasn't for the iMac Pro. Even if you find Apple branded sticks, you won't be able to pair them to T2 without a trip to the apple store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKC Posted December 16, 2019 Author Share Posted December 16, 2019 Interesting, how do you use a PCI-e for a drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ploki Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 https://www.sonnettech.com/product/m2-4x4-pcie-card.html like this. best thing is, it offers 4x4 lanes, so if you RAID0 all four, you get probably in the 12gb/s vicinity throughput. (one thunderbolt 3 is 1x4, so quarter that) internal drive is on 1x4 lanes iirc, and tops up at 2.7gb/s, so this should be faster anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKC Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 Cool, that's the solution. I will have to get a 1TB system drive but the rest can be with this thing. I also have two other PCIe cards (UAD2 and RME Raydat) but there a 8 places if I have understood it correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ploki Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 yes, but one is used by GPU by default, so effectively 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKC Posted December 19, 2019 Author Share Posted December 19, 2019 Still I only use three slots now, actually two but Rayday takes up the place for two because I need 24 I/O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ploki Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 four slots in the new MP are double wide, and 4 are single Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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