Those suggestions you made look perfect , Thanks for helping lift the grey cloud for me on this subject, as I,m still trying to "come to grips" with all this technology.
Wow great info Darryl, Ive noticed you are an authority of a great wealth on this forum regarding anything mac related. All discussed here on DUC in many other posts. Apple zigged when everybody else is zagging.Īnd once you have your SSDs make sure they are set up properly, including updating firmware if needed, using Trim Enabler and over-provisioning the drives. NVMe disk technology is going to drive more demand for direct PCIe access.
The trouble is Apple completely screwed over the whole IO story with the Mac Pro by deprecating PCIe and make you try to suck IO though a thin Thunderbolt straw. If are say a post house and have more serious IO demands, and budget, then its a much longer conversation - and there are great NVMe enterprise class SSDs from Micron and Samsung (and more coming). One or two of those (slightly expensive) Lacie boxes would be my strong personal choice for a Mac Pro today.Īnd in general SATA is a rapidly dying disk technology, everything is going PCIe, and especially NVMe. Whatever you get make sure it supports EFI/booting.īut as always when doing this you are now your own systems integrator, do you want to do that?Īnother very nice options is the current Lacie 1TB Little Big Disk 2, it uses two Samsung PCIe flash cards, so bypasses the SATA limits. This one looks great for low-end use there are lots of other multi-disk dock options, but I'd certainly look at Sonnet Technology over OWC products. Now how are you going to connect them to your Mac Pro? You need a SATA to Thunderbold dock solution. I dislike Sandforce, their (past) problems, and the whole idea of manufacturers using third party firmware, so the OWC drives are a no go for me. They are the only consumer SATA drives I'd look at today. Seems silly to go for more than an Evo for sample drives.ĭon't buy the smallest sizes of any of these drives, as they are a bit slower due to decreased internal fan-out., besides at the current great prices you might as well buy larger drives that will last longer and be more useful. Samsung 850 Pro (I'd give it a while in the market before rushing to buy any totally brand new drive, initial prices are also a bit high, they use new very impressive looking VNAND MLC flash). Samsung 840 Pro (there is no 1TB 840 Pro and there never will be, they use less dense/more expensive MLC flash). Samsung 840 Evo (the Evo is avaialbe in 1TB, is uses lower cost/denser TLC flash) You are limiting yourself to consumer class SATA III drives? Then.
, I dont want to run raid software on these, I just want the quick speed of the SSd's for quick read and write for protools and loading of V.Is. (link) - OWC Thunderbay 4 SoftRAID 5 Thunderbolt Drives & EnclosuresDual Thunderbolt 2 | RAID Ready | 4 Drive Bays | MacĪnd for SSD installation it needs this adapter - (Link). This is the External enclosure I like so far - OWC Thunderbay 4, It has a thunderbolt 2 connection., I also saw this today, a samsung 850 Pro (available 21st July) that is 1TB Samsung 840 Pro (512Gb) - I dont think these are yet 1TB ?. What SSD drives do you recommend as superior performance and also best quality and long life usage " Hi there, I am buying a new mac pro soon and want to buy an external storage unit to house SSD drives - to store all my.