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Report on the 2019 Mac Pro
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[steve Zavo] “What adapter card did you use to add your PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD drive”
OWC Accelsior 4M2
[steve Zavo] “Are there others you approve?”
Sonnet M.2 4×4 PCIe card
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush] “OWC Accelsior 4M2”
Herb what speeds are you getting?
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The issues with old QT codec and Catalina (as well as Mojave) is persistent no matter which computer we have at work.
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Regarding NVMe support on the new MacPro there are quite a few options.
– OWC (up to 6 GB/s)
– Sonnet (up to 10 GB/s, BYOD)
– HighPoint (up to 14 GB/s, BYOD)They all have their pros / cons. We went with 4TB and 8TB OWC as they are “ready to go” and built with a fanless design.
You can even raid two HighPoint cards for a total of 8 SSD’s peaking at over 25 GB/s.
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[Erik Lindahl] “You can even raid two HighPoint cards for a total of 8 SSD’s peaking at over 25 GB/s.”
Do you have any specific models?
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Sorry for the late reply.
We got the OWC-SSD, 4TB and 8TB versions. I haven’t tested all configs but…
– a single drive gets around 3GB/s read and write across the drive.
– a 3 drive raid 0 get slightly above 6 GB/s read and write across the drive.The above goes for both 1TB or 2TB versions.
With “only” 6 TB/s r/w one could probably put the blades in a 8X slot instead of the recommended 16X slot. That said, in theory you could probably tax 2X raid 0’s quite heavily in parallel. Not sure you’d get the full 2×6000 MB/s though but probably / possibly more than 3-4 drives in raid 0 if you read / write to the respective drives.
I can also confirm doing some tests in Resolve today the importance of fast storage. One project – be that almost 6K ProRes 4444 – was heavily limited by the drive I had it on, and external USB-C drive running at up to 550 MB/s. Transferring the media to the internal OWC-drive saw real world read speeds of up to 1850 MB/s.
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F-ing hell the forum removed 90% of my reply. Will try to add it again
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[Erik Lindahl] “F-ing hell the forum removed 90% of my reply. Will try to add it again
“Yea I tend to type long replies in a notepad before trying to post here.
Ive lost many long winded posts due to nimble fingers 😛Looking forward to hearing more of your findings 🙂
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