Mac Pro 3,1 and Apricorn Velocity Solo x1

[devon807]

Hello all, I own a Mac Pro 3,1 and was wondering if anyone had any issues with this card in their mac.

 

[mathemabeat]

Hello all, I own a Mac Pro 3,1 and was wondering if anyone had any issues with this card in their mac.

It should work fine.

I had a solo x2 and upgraded to a duo x2 and they work great with an ssd. I use Samsung 850 Evo 500 gig ssd's.

I can see and use the early boot screen with either card in my 2009 machine.

 

[TheStork]

I, too, have the Apricorn Velocity Duo x2 in my 2008 and 2010 Mac Pros. They work very well. Don't hesitate to get one. Samsung EVO or Pro SSDs are fast and available at a good price when they come up on a sale which is just about weekly at Newegg.

 

[pastrychef]

My experience with a Velocity Solo X1 and a 3,1 was not too good. I would recommend avoiding this combo.

 

[Twimfy]

My experience with a Velocity Solo X1 and a 3,1 was not too good. I would recommend avoiding this combo.

I on the other hand have that exact setup and it works really well :-/

 

[devon807]

Thanks for all of your input!

 

[mac65]

See my experience in this thread:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-pro-early-2008-3-1-not-booting-velocity-solo-x1.1890370

Basically, mine did work as a secondary drive but I could not boot OSX from it. Turns out I had an old card. Got a replacement, and that worked fine. Only problem is that one cannot install bootcamp on it and boot from it (at least now Win7, see https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/velocity-solo-x1-and-bootcamp.1681583/). So, you need to keep your Windows system on one of the 4 drive bays. Maybe Win10 does better, haven't been able to try that, yet.

 

[pastrychef]

Unless you can tell which vintage of the card you are getting, I still say stay away from it.