MP 7,1 I had a great day with my Mac Pro today

[kjohansen]

Finally got the Samsung memory 16GB sticks and got my PCIE M2 card and Samsung 970 Evo Plus... I bought a bare bones 7,1

But I now have 96 GB RAM and a new 1 TB system drive...


It is working great!!!!

 

[bcomer]

Which M2 card did you get?

 

[kjohansen]

Which M2 card did you get?

EZDIY-FAB PCI Express M.2 SSD NGFF PCIe Card to PCIe 3.0 x4 M2 Adapter (Support M.2 PCIe 22110,2280, 2260, 2242)

At leases it works!!!!

 

[Earl Urley]

Are you getting full speeds from the Samsung, like 3000 MB/sec?

 

[flowrider]

EZDIY-FAB PCI Express M.2 SSD NGFF PCIe Card to PCIe 3.0 x4 M2 Adapter (Support M.2 PCIe 22110,2280, 2260, 2242)

At leases it works!!!!

Watch the heat on that - No Heat sink

Lou

 

[MIKX]

In summer I have a 50mm x 50mm x 10mm USB ( powered from external 7 port USB HUB).

My Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500gb currently ( Japanese winter) runs at around 37°C.

The above fan keeps the summer temp to around the same

This pic was taken prior to my monthly de-dusting ).

This is the OWLTECH OWL-PCEXM2-03 M.2 card - it now has the 970 EVO Plus installed + one copper heatsink. Excellent workmanship ! The 970 EVO Plus gets consistent 1,492mb/s write.

I had a spare cMP 2,1 side cover which fits my 4,1>5,1 - doesn't lock but doesn't fall off

Connected the drive activity LED to the side cover. Very informative.

 

[AidenShaw]

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You're holding it wrong.

The heatsink is in the wrong place - it's on a support chip. On the 970 EVO Plus the controller chip (the one that needs to be cooled) is the shiny chip closest to the pins.

Here's where the heat sink should be - on the shiny chip next to the pins.

 

[MIKX]

Aiden Shaw

EDIT 2 : Actually, there IS a copper heatsink over the Samsung logo, it's just not visible in the photo due
to the angle of the shot, I forgot that I had done that.

EDIT 1 : It doesn't get hot enough in Autumn & Winter and in summer the USB fan keeps it quite cool,
well withing operating specs. But you are correct about heatsink optimum placement.😇


NOTE : The 500gb 970 EVO Plus runs about 5°C hotter then the 970 EVO 256gb so I have three heatsinks
( 2 copper & 1 alum ) now on the 970 EVO PLUS & also a 16.14 CFM USB powered fan for in
readiness for summer Japan 2020.