2010 Mac Pro 12core 32gb ram startup time with 1tb SSD in SATA2 bay is 30 seconds. Startup with Apricorn X2 is 1min30sec. I tried all PCIe slots, whats happening here?
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Go into System Preferences and make sure you have the SSD set as your boot drive. If it's not selected, OS X will try to find other boot devices until it gets to the SSD. After you make the change it should boot right away.
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Sorry I have no experience using the card in mac. I used the card on PC machines. My guess is as J Luster suggested ... the mac motherboard is scanning all the SATA ports 1st for a bootable HD before finding the AVSx2. On a PC one would have to look into the BIOS to change the boot order to boot off the PCI cards 1st. I found problems with AVSx2 recognition depending upon whether or not I was also running the motherboard in legacy vs AHCI HD configuration. I don't bother with the card anymore.
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The same thing happened with my 2009 Mac Pro. I checked on Mac Rumors and found others noted the same thing. It seems to be related to the SSD being recognized as having an OS on it only after the other SATA bays are scanned. Once recognized, it boots as quickly as a SATA bay, in my experience.
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In your BIOS (assuming you know what that is), there should be some setting somewhere for speeds. Usually under the power section. Depends on the BIOS.
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Much slower than internal SSD. I would not run apps from the PNY. User data is ok. But I suggest setting up filevault disk encryption so if the PNY is removed by third party they will not have access to your data. Will not add to RAM that will allow you to run more apps at the same time.
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I tried a hybrid drive and it gave me similar performance to a SSD, 10 to 25% in initial load, no diference in between game load time and not much difference in start time. Basically not really worth it. The difference is like 36 sec vs 40 or 55 vs 102 sec.
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My Mac Pro is also an 8 core with 8 memory slots. The ram slots worked perfectly. The Year of My Mac pro is a 2008 so it worked well.
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Working for me under 10.10.4 on a MacPro4,1. I have not noticed appreciable slowdown.
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This will be a great investment. I actually bought 2 for my Macbook Pro late 2011 17". I didnt have any use for the CD ROM so got a caddy to mount one of the drives. As it stands one of the SSDs is used as the system boot drive and the next to store media files (Photos and videos). I moved from a boot time of almost 2 minutes to 12-15 seconds, applications now load much faster. I think you will enjoy your purchase.
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I'm running FreeBSD with 2GB of ram, cold boot is about 45 seconds and warm boot is about 20 seconds.
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I've got an older 20" iMac (2009?) with the black back. It runs pretty hot and loud, but seems to be fine. I've recently replaced the 1TB WD black with the 2TB variant and it's been running fine for at least six months. If I could do it over, I'd buy a fast, quiet SSD and use external drives for data. Of course, that's going to cost a lot more.
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It's NOT SATA2 compatible in MacBooks or MacMinis: it will connect @ SATA 1 speeds on those, always, no matter what.
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I use this drive as my BootCamp (Win8.1) on a new Mac Pro. I keep it up in a wire trough under my desk. I have been through the wiring a few times, and have not noticed this drive to be warm. I think the moving drives generate more heat than the SSDs.
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I'm running it on a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R mainboard. This week I attached a 250Gb EVO ssd to the IO Crest and the Samsung Magician software is reporting it as a SATA 3 (6Gb/s) interface. My drive benchmarks at 428 (sequential read), 57935 iops (random) and 402 (sequential write), 24716 iops (random), now well below the 540 / 520 max indicated. The drive has slightly better than 50% freespace.
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Hi - I've been running 8.1 without issue for about 2 months now. I believe I've launched each of the various utils they offer at least once - don't recall any major problems. I did settle at one step below the ultra fast boot to allow the option to enter BIOS on boot.
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1GB (two 512MB SO-DIMMs) or 2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB this is what your Mac calls for so I would say NO since Komputerbay's is running at 266 mhz. You need to take the time to do a simple online search and that is exactly what I did. Most memory retail have memory finders including Amazon check it out.
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It works fine with my mid 2010 Quad-core (see below)Model Name: Mac Pro Model Identifier: MacPro5,1 Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 8 MB Memory: 16 GB Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s Boot ROM Version: MP51.007F.B03 SMC Version (system): 1.39f11 SMC Version (processor tray): 1.39f11
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I have a Mac Pro mid 2010 with a 2 x 2.4 Ghz Quad Core Intel Xeon 1066 Mhz DDR3 ECC and it worked flawlessly in mine. No issues what so ever, snapped right in and the Mac recognized it with zero issues.
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I can assure that the pro version runs faster - they have different chipsets. Take a look at http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1767466/samsung-840-pro-ssd-samsung-840-evo-ssd.html