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MP 1,1-5,1 mac pro 5.1 / ssd systemdrive in optical or sata bay?

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macha-one

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Like the thread title says....what is the best option to put my system ssd in.
Optical bay or drive bay? I have a sata ssd.
I have adapters and mounts for both options so my question is solely about the speed of the ports. which should be faster?


thnx in advance for your reply
 
macha-one said:
Like the thread title says....what is the best option to put my system ssd in.
Optical bay or drive bay? I have a sata ssd.
I have adapters and mounts for both options so my question is solely about the speed of the ports. which should be faster?


thnx in advance for your reply
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It's exactly the same speed for all the ports, the 4 SATAII on the backplane and the two SATAII on the ODD bays, so choose what fits your usage best.
 
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tsialex said:
It's exactly the same speed for all the ports, the 4 SATAII on the backplane and the two SATAII on the ODD bays, so choose what fits your usage best.
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thnx tsialex. i reach around 250 mb/sec read write. i trim enabled my samsung evo 860 using terminal .I suppose this is a good thing to do?
is 250 the max speed over sata2?

considering the owc accelsior pci ( the cheap version) would that give me 520 mb read write ?
 
macha-one said:
thnx tsialex. i reach around 250 mb/sec read write. i trim enabled my samsung evo 860 using terminal .I suppose this is a good thing to do?
is 250 the max speed over sata2?

considering the owc accelsior pci ( the cheap version) would that give me 520 mb read write ?
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SATAII = 300MB/s overhead included, so you get around 260MB/s usable after you discount overhead.

You should use TRIM with all modern SSDs.

If you don't have a SATAIII card already, forget it and look at NVMe.
 
The sata ssd takes quite a long time to boot up the system. It takes about a min before i see the apple logo. Then another minute to boot up. I checked several times with a stopwatch. Average is around 1.50 after the chime sound of booting.

I have a 4TB and 2 TB drive in my optical bays and in sata 1 the system ssd , in bay 2 the windows partition drive. Slot 3 has a 3TB and slot 4 a 2 TB drive.
Is the delay before the apple logo appears due to all the drives in my cMP?

Will the mojave/nvme route give me a faster boot time? Since i do bootcamp as well speeding up the bootprocess is my main focus.
 
macha-one said:
The sata ssd takes quite a long time to boot up the system. It takes about a min before i see the apple logo. Then another minute to boot up. I checked several times with a stopwatch. Average is around 1.50 after the chime sound of booting.

I have a 4TB and 2 TB drive in my optical bays and in sata 1 the system ssd , in bay 2 the windows partition drive. Slot 3 has a 3TB and slot 4 a 2 TB drive.
Is the delay before the apple logo appears due to all the drives in my cMP?

Will the mojave/nvme route give me a faster boot time? Since i do bootcamp as well speeding up the bootprocess is my main focus.
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This is the usual POST time for a Mac Pro and won't change with Mojave. With a NVMe drive, takes even more.
 
Thnx good to know. Tsialex. I ll stick with sata for now. See what changes the coming year with GPU upgrades and ssd prices.
 
Macschrauber said:
Is there still the glitch that a bootcamp drive must be NOT plugged in one of the ODD Sata ports ?
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My Windows SSD plugged into the optical cage's quite a few years already, no problem at all.
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MarkC426 said:
Just curious, is trim not enabled because it’s a windows volume?
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No, I intentionally disabled it just few days back for testing, due to possible conflict between APFS and trimforce.

When trimforce enabled, boot time 1:38

With trimforce disabled, boot time 28s

And I am still looking for prove that if APFS has build in TRIM.

So far, I can't see any slow down yet. So, I keep it disabled.

If trimforce is enabled, all SSD including Windows drive will show TRIM supported.
 
Interesting......thanks.
Personally my mac only goes in sleep mode, so rarely does a boot, so boot time is not an issue....:)
 
MarkC426 said:
Interesting......thanks.
Personally my mac only goes in sleep mode, so rarely does a boot, so boot time is not an issue....:)
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It's not the boot time annoying me. My Mac run 24/7, no sleep, shutdown about every 2 weeks for de-dusting.

But that's a sign that something is wrong. And I want to see some facts if any sign that APFS has build in TRIM (e.g. no write speed degrade without trimforce enabled for a long period of time).

Anyway, not this thread related.
 
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