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Old 03-11-2021, 12:02 PM
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Default Re: MacPro Late 2012-Is it worth upgrading the Video Card?

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Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm View Post
While I'm a big fan of SSD, especially NVMe SSD, you can do a lot of testing by making sure your sessions fully load into disk cache, you have to set disk cache to a size (not "normal") and watching the disk cache meter turn green before doing anything. That will help mitigate many, but not all potential storage issues.

Motherboard SATA on the Cheesegrater classics is only SATA II, so you get better performance with a SATA III PCIe card, and tehr using a card with on board SATA drive mounts, or replacing the optical drive with a mount kit or an install kit in the existing SATA bay space. ... but still much slower than going with M.2 NVMe drives, but yes that needs an upgrade.
I'll check on the disk cache, I thought I set it much larger than default years back.
After you mentioned the SATA III PCIe Card, I looked into these OWC
Accelsior PCIe Cards, but they don't mention that it's SATA III. Do yo know?
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