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Sonnet pci cards for mac pro 2013 increase speed

SONNET PCI CARDS FOR MAC PRO 2013 INCREASE SPEED HOW TO
SONNET PCI CARDS FOR MAC PRO 2013 INCREASE SPEED MAC OS
SONNET PCI CARDS FOR MAC PRO 2013 INCREASE SPEED INSTALL

I now have two MacBook Pro’s and i7 and i9 and two Mac Pro’s a single core X5960 and dual core X5960. The old MacPro’s also don’t restart overnight due to overheating, they just plough on and get the job done. What I’ve managed to do is to get the important bits to fire as fast as the latest machine, meaning I cna edit 4K video on the 2010 MacPro as well as I can on the latest i9 MacBook Pro. They have power the latest Mac’s can only dream of.īest portable storage drives for photos and videoīut are they really worth saving from the scrap heap, hell yes, they’re as fast as the MacBook Pro i9 I’m typing on? Well almost, this was £3500 and caused more grief than any computer I’ve ever owned or built and I didn’t even have to match a math coprocessor with the CPU. That would be defeatist, I’ve loved these machines since they were released and they’re true Mac. One single CPU and one dual.īut these machines are now 9 and 10 years old so you’d think they’d be slow and nothing would be nothing better than to turn them into hipster furniture. This means that I’m now the proud owner of two Mac 5,1’s. This is a bad, but also very good thing, as unlike me they don’t have the time to ass around dismantling and experimenting with old machines to see if they can make them faster, something that I just can’t resist.

The issue is now friends who own video and photographic studios have bailed on Mac, the power just isn’t there, and confidence in Apple as a provider of Pro level creative equipment has evaporated. There are rumours of the modular MacPro 2019, but as yet nothing. To be honest I had been expecting a MacPro update in early 2019 but it shouldn’t have been a surprise when nothing materialised.

SONNET PCI CARDS FOR MAC PRO 2013 INCREASE SPEED HOW TO

How to boot your Mac Pro 5,1 from a Nvme SSD bootĪ fast and furious update to the Nvme WD Black SSD in the MacPro 5,1. That’s a huge increase in speed and now means that your machine should be able to handle editing 4K video without too much issue. You should see the Read/Write speeds leap to around 1500MB/s.

Now check out the speed with Black Magic Disk Speed Test. That’s it, probably the easiest and fastest upgrade going. Once finished you should be able to see the drive on your desktop.

SONNET PCI CARDS FOR MAC PRO 2013 INCREASE SPEED MAC OS

Select APFS, if not available select Mac OS Journaled.

On the left select the new drive and then select Delete to reformat.

Once booted a pop should appear telling you that an unregonised drive has been installed.

Reinstall the clamp and the side of the Mac.

In the Mac release the secring bracket and pop in the card.

SONNET PCI CARDS FOR MAC PRO 2013 INCREASE SPEED INSTALL

Install the Nvme SSD in to the PCIe card.

Open the side and check the top PCIe slot is free.

The SSD I’ve selected is the WD Black as this has sequential Read speeds of up to 2,050 MB/s. Once installed the card with SSD simply slots into the top X4 / RAID PCIe slot in the Mac Pro.

This is relatively cheap and enables you to mount the Nvme module directly on. Star Tech x4 PCI Express to M.2 PCIe SSD Adapter Just one issue, the old Mac Pro’s don’t have the right type of port to connect one of these superfast drives directly so you’ll also need an adapter.