Can you make fusion drive with SSD on Apricorn Velocity PCIe card and HDD on SATA port?
You possibly could... but I wouldn't. A fusion drive ( as in Apples version ) is a standard spinning disk with a SSD working in unison so A fusion drive is actually 2 serperate parts - a spinning Disk + an SSD
It is a transparent mirroring of certain information to again the best speeds possible. This is done within OSX
It is not directly a hybrid drive or cache drive.
You can make your own but you have to remember if one fails you all data.
http://blog.macsales.com/15617-creating-your-own-fusion-drive
hi guys
I bought an early Mac Pro 4.1 , 2.66 ghz, quad core with an 27 inch Apple cinema screen for a really good price ....what to do now..?
It came with a fresh install of Mavericks which seems to work quite well, however the two things I have noticed is that the boot startup is quite slow and the screen keeps flashing on and off...
I do have the original disc for Mavericks but it is scratched to hell and I'm not sure it will work. If I download Yosemite , will it be able to run ok on my specs?
I would like to install it on a new ssd drive rather than the hd I have at the moment, is this possible to do? Any advice on these topics would be great
SSD then Ram will make all the difference - The PCIE options are great if you need the speed. You don't mention what you need the mac pro for?
Video Card / Flashing
Could be a Graphics card issue - remove and reseat it? What one is it? Get a new / better one from
http://www.macvidcards.com/index.html
Hard drive
I have 2 x 500gb SSD in 3.5" docks in 2 slots and 2 x 4TB drives in the others.
1: I have OSX / Applications and home folders on 1 and use the
2: Current WORK drive. When I have finished a project I off load onto
3: Archived work
4: Dump drive - testing etc.
All of this is backed up via time machine to a big synology NAS.
A couple of the SSD on Apricorn Velocity PCIe card would give you even more space. But do you need much space?! You can even stick SSDs on the Optical drive channel - OWC do a kit.
Yosemite - Yes no problem. I have it on a mac 2,1 2008 and works great.
Ram - As much as you can afford - Crucial or OWC - make sure you follow the instructions when you insert them. All versions of the mac pro have different setups - some need matched pairs etc -
http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT4433 - mine is tricky as it's got 2 separate memory riser cards and you need to be really careful what slots they are in.
Oh and above all Keep it clean inside... there are a lot of fans and they will suck in any dust. the amount of machines I've seen with crazy dust bunnies and gunk...