MP 1,1-5,1 Connecting External Thunderbolt 3 RAID to 5,1?

[choreo]

I have been looking at Thunderbolt 3 External Drive enclosures at OWC. I am thinking of off-loading all of the data on my current four internal hard drives to such an enclosure in preparation for moving to a future Mac (since none of the new Macs accept internal drives now).

1. Is there any solution for connecting such an external enclosure to my 2012 Mac Pro?
2. Would this be an alternate to utilizing my internal drives for the next few months until I get a Mac Pro replacement with built-in Thunderbolt connections?

 

[bsbeamer]

Natively with macOS - NO.

See this thread for more info, including Windows boot "hack" and specific hardware that MIGHT be compatible:

testing TB3 AIC with MP 5,1

The good folks at egpu.io have had some encouraging results with the latest Gigabyte TB3 add-in card and will be testing in MP 5,1. Will be very interesting to see the results. Hat tip to @itsage. [edit] to correct link

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