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MP 14,8 2023 Mac Pro - adding internal PCIe storage?..ADDED!

wgr73

wgr73

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Hey guys!

I have my new M2 Ultra Mac Pro with only a 1 TB SSD.

I’m looking to add 4+TB in the PCIe slots

What do you recommend? I see OWC sells a few different setups (8TB setups are nice as well).

I’m not sure what all works in the new M2, but by the looks of it even the older 2019 PCIe stuff should work.

Am I missing something?

Not really looking to add the Apple 4TB NVME stuff

Edit: Ended up adding the 8TB setup from OWC! Love it. Blazing fast, faster than the onboard SSD!
 
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VelNZ said:
Hey,

I've got a 2023 Mac Pro on the way too and have been researching storage options as well. OWC have some good options, including the monster 26GB/s cards, but for something cheaper also check out Sonnet: https://www.sonnettech.com/product/computer-cards/cards.html They have banners on most of their PCIe cards that they work in the 2023 Mac Pro.
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Thank you!

Purchased this one: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDACL8M208T/

8TB seems to be the best bang for the buck.

And I’ll have this system for a long time. I'll post up my review when I get it!
 
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Spock said:
Bragging rights and/or decoration.
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I think you're right because I can't think of anything in particular that can't be handled by a less expensive Mac (M2 Ultra Studio for Apple Silicon or 2019 Mac Pro for slots), but I hope it works out well for the folks who bought one. Seems like an odd choice for VM stuff. I think the extra RAM of the 2019 model would be better for that.

I think the best buy for a Mac Pro would be a refurbished base 2019 plus an RX 6900 XT and a RAM upgrade. That takes care of PCIe slot needs and GPU power.
 
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Very Fast! BlackMagic is reporting 10,200 Read/10,300 Write with SoftRaid enabled.

8TB is exactly what I wanted!

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Very nice.

Can you show us what your PCIE Expansion Utility looks like with that card running in an PCIE 4.0 x16 slot.

It will give us a good idea on how many additional lanes are left when using a RAID controller card like this.

When I went to an Apple Store recently, I saw the stock cards already taking up 88% of Pool A. So curious here.
 
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PowerMike G5 said:
Very nice.

Can you show us what your PCIE Expansion Utility looks like with that card running in an PCIE 4.0 x16 slot.

It will give us a good idea on how many additional lanes are left when using a RAID controller card like this.

When I went to an Apple Store recently, I saw the stock cards already taking up 88% of Pool A. So curious here.
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Thanks, but I'm asking for the PCIE Expansion Slot Utility that shows you the PCIE lane usage between the 2 pools allocated. I've attached mine for reference.

I'm trying to see how much allocation a full PCIE 4.0 x16 card takes up in the new Mac Pro to better get a sense of how much bandwidth there really is for those 6 open slots in that machine.

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How hot can the OWC card gets? do you hear any fan noise? do you have iStats or something similar to monitor de temps of each ssd?
 
PowerMike G5 said:
Thanks, but I'm asking for the PCIE Expansion Slot Utility that shows you the PCIE lane usage between the 2 pools allocated. I've attached mine for reference.

I'm trying to see how much allocation a full PCIE 4.0 x16 card takes up in the new Mac Pro to better get a sense of how much bandwidth there really is for those 6 open slots in that machine.

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I’ll get this in the morning. My bad
 
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