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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
I have to admit I am just a tad nervous reading ghost's experience, and hoping that using a completely different drive for Boot and PT will be better suited .
As well as moving my PTHDN card to slot 4 from slot 2, not being any issue I do have the Crest placed on back order on Amazon, supposed to be back in stock Aug 7 I feel better now that I opted for the 970 EVOs, and not the 970 Plus
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
Correct me if I’m missing something... why would you not get full speed with only one ssd attached to the crest card?
Ghostwriter, you say that when you only had one 970 in you got 1,500 MB/s. James Welch Recording Engineer | Producer Masterlink Productions Mac Pro 5,1 (Mid 2010) | 3.46GHz Six-Core Intel Xeon | 32GB Ram | AMD Radeon R9 280X 3072 MB | 256GB Samsung SM951 SSD Blade (PCIe) System Drive | 1TB WDC Sample Drive | 4TB RAID 0 Seagate Audio Drive | UAD-2 Quad PCIe Mojave 10.14.5 | Pro Tools Ultimate 2019.5 | HDX | Avid Omni | Avid 16x16 HD I/O x2 | Digidesign 192 | Digidesign C24
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
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I have no reason to believe that you wouldn’t get full speed (around 3000) with one card in the Crest adapter. It is in a standard non-switched adapter that the 970 will operate at half speed. I am going to put both of my 970s in a standard adapter (one at a time of course) to see if they are more stable than they have been in the Crest adapter. If the 970s are stable, I will most likely replace the Crest adapter to see if I received a bad one. I am trying to rule out whether it is a 970 that is bad, or the Crest adapter and go from there. I suppose I could try one 970 in the Crest just to see how it behaves. I’m this far down the rabbit hole, eh?
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
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Thanks for clarifying! Let us know how it goes. James Welch Recording Engineer | Producer Masterlink Productions Mac Pro 5,1 (Mid 2010) | 3.46GHz Six-Core Intel Xeon | 32GB Ram | AMD Radeon R9 280X 3072 MB | 256GB Samsung SM951 SSD Blade (PCIe) System Drive | 1TB WDC Sample Drive | 4TB RAID 0 Seagate Audio Drive | UAD-2 Quad PCIe Mojave 10.14.5 | Pro Tools Ultimate 2019.5 | HDX | Avid Omni | Avid 16x16 HD I/O x2 | Digidesign 192 | Digidesign C24
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
I have now worked one full day with my setup. PT and OS on one drive in the Crest adapter and Audio on a second older ASHC drive. No hiccups. I think you were sent a bad Crest Card, Ghost.
System drive in Bay 1 on the crest card Available: 735,53 GB (735*532*539*904 bytes) Capacity: 1,02 TB (1*023*999*787*008 bytes) Mount Point: / File System: APFS Writable: Yes Ignore Ownership: No BSD Name: disk4s1 Volume UUID: 83020104-4E7A-309E-BA80-F47A4EA00AE4 Physical Drive: Device Name: Samsung SSD 970 PRO 1TB Media Name: AppleAPFSMedia Medium Type: SSD Protocol: PCI-Express Internal: No Partition Map Type: Unknown Audio SSD in the second bay on the same crews card: Available: 37,2 GB (37*195*681*792 bytes) Capacity: 479,76 GB (479*760*007*168 bytes) Mount Point: /Volumes/Audio SSD File System: Journaled HFS+ Writable: Yes Ignore Ownership: Yes BSD Name: disk2s2 Volume UUID: B5F0BCD3-0F4A-3C5F-ACA2-31E047AD0D97 Physical Drive: Device Name: Kingston SHPM2280P2/480G Media Name: Kingston SHPM2280P2/480G Media Medium Type: SSD Protocol: SATA Internal: No Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) SMART Status: Verified
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
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I sure would like to know how stable your system would be with a second drive running at double the speed. I have taken out one of the 970s and am going to attempt to boot from the remaining one in the Crest adapter. Don’t know if it will work or how well, but we shall see. Also, I have a new Crest adapter arriving Wednesday to see if that one works better. I really would like to be able to have two 970s running speeds close to 3000.
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
I see nothing under system report NVMe that tells me what revision the 970 is. I see serial number, size, etc.... but no revision info.
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
How are your boot times?
James Welch Recording Engineer | Producer Masterlink Productions Mac Pro 5,1 (Mid 2010) | 3.46GHz Six-Core Intel Xeon | 32GB Ram | AMD Radeon R9 280X 3072 MB | 256GB Samsung SM951 SSD Blade (PCIe) System Drive | 1TB WDC Sample Drive | 4TB RAID 0 Seagate Audio Drive | UAD-2 Quad PCIe Mojave 10.14.5 | Pro Tools Ultimate 2019.5 | HDX | Avid Omni | Avid 16x16 HD I/O x2 | Digidesign 192 | Digidesign C24
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James Welch Recording Engineer | Producer Masterlink Productions Mac Mini 8,1 (2018) | 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel i7 | 64GB Ram | Apple 27" LED Cinema | 2TB System Drive | LaCie Rugged USB-C 2TB SSD NVMe Audio Drive | UAD-2 Quad Satellite (Firewire) macOS Catalina 10.15.7 | Pro Tools Ultimate 2021.7 | Avid HDX TB3 Chassis | HDX | Avid Omni | Avid 16x16 HD I/O x2 | Digidesign 192 | Digidesign C24 |
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
Why do you care if you boot once a month or two?
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
Okay, here is today’s update.
The Crest card will not work with one 970 ssd in it. Well, it will work, but it crashes. I put a single 970 in a non-switched adapter and Pro Tools is running fine, although the speed test shows it’s running around 1500 as to be expected. Either I have a bad Crest adapter or the Crest adapter works with one ssd running at 3000 and the second ssd running at 1500, as Johan Bejerholm of World Studios is experiencing. I will test the new Crest adapter in my Mac, probably on Thursday by the time Amazon delivers it on Wednesday. I am determined to get this working and will keep you all updated. Cheers.
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