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Re: Can I do something to enhance my Mac Pro (mid 2012) Performance?
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Your cheesegrater has PCIe 2 slots so if you want to get the best performance from PCIe 3 based SSD today you need to use a switch based PCIe slot to M.2 adapter card (basically a Syba I/O Crest SI-PEX40129). This stuff has been discussed to death in past threads here, you can search for those. You are in the stone age if running on HDD... but be careful rushing to change storage, go to NVMe etc. Read and learn first. |
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Re: Can I do something to enhance my Mac Pro (mid 2012) Performance?
I say, get this:
Sonnet Technologies Tempo 6Gb/s SATA PCIe 2.0 It's $100, put your SSD on it, and clone your startup disk to it, and enjoy the new speed and sparkle it gives your mac in the form of boot times, launch times, and such. 500mb/s read/write instead of 100mb/s. It's very easy and quickly done. Later you can move on. |
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Re: Can I do something to enhance my Mac Pro (mid 2012) Performance?
I wouldn't worry about the so called heat issues. Have been running NVMe for years already and never installed the recommended heat sink.
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Re: Can I do something to enhance my Mac Pro (mid 2012) Performance?
Where will enhance more the performance ?
Having the MacOS SSD connected to a PCIe Slot or the Audio HD? |
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Re: Can I do something to enhance my Mac Pro (mid 2012) Performance?
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OS on fast drive: Boot, app launch, general. Sessions on fast drive: Sessions load, audio processing, saving, copying, so on. They could be two separate, or one larger. |
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Re: Can I do something to enhance my Mac Pro (mid 2012) Performance?
If it’s one or the other, put the boot drive on the fastest bus.
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Re: Can I do something to enhance my Mac Pro (mid 2012) Performance?
Do you use much in the way of samples? If so I'd put that on an ssd in a pcie slot along with the system ssd on a pcie adapter card. Leave sessions where they are now. If the answer is no on samples then why not do both on ssd's on pcie adapters cards?
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Re: Can I do something to enhance my Mac Pro (mid 2012) Performance?
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Where do you see most need for low latency? OS first, samples second, audio last. So I would have my OS on any SSD because of low latency (no seek time) but any SSD will do, even "slow" SATA bay because OS does not need so much throughput and how often you boot anyway? (Before the recent 10.15.5 update my uptime was 45 days). The real question is whether your fastest SSD is fast enough for sample based virtual instruments and audio sessions at the same time. If not, most likely your OS and audio sessions can share same SSD (because OS needs low latency and session needs good throughput).
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