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Old 08-01-2019, 05:40 PM
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Default Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave

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Originally Posted by WorldStudios View Post
But they must have thought about this scenario??
As far as I understand this, the drives interface to PCIe and not between each other. Which means copying from A to B goes thru PCIe, and if the PCIe bandwidth is already fully utilized with one drive throughput, you're going to have to install another adapter card for another drive to make it happen.

Only scenario that I can think of where A and B would be linked without talking to PCIe would be RAID configuration, and even then data would not be copied between the drives.
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