So i can call myself lucky now to have been able to get my hands on even "the real thing" for 50, (another) adaptor included? 🤩
Are you referring to this?
No, referring to this...allready on it's way to me! 😁Are you referring to this?
The auction I linked to earlier includes just the SSD. In that case you'll need to purchase the adaptor as well. Just saying.
Ah, I hadn't seen that. Congrats! Always better to have the original
The screenshot shows the card operating at PCIe 2.0 ×2.
Yes, quite clear...which makes the second socket completely obsolete. At least for the PCIe G5s.
At least i now know why the Quad hangs with the preinstalled image: "No driver found for plattform PowerMAC 11,2" and after that a long string beginning with SourceCache/xnu/...
Seems like OWC's Asmedia is also not capable of anything more...but for a less than half of the $.
We need to find a four- or eight-lane SATA 6 Gbps controller I guess... or forget about SATA altogether
When i see, what even a twelfe-year-old gets out of PCIe 2.0 via NVMe, i think maybe SATA just isn't the way to go (anymore). But this here is about PPC and PCIe 1.0 (if any).We need to find a four- or eight-lane SATA 6 Gbps controller I guess... or forget about SATA altogether
Nice! ...but, as Joevt reminds "It says 5.0 GT/s which means Thunderbolt 1 is PCIe 2.0.". That's not, what we are talking about here. But on the other hand, the one i get, is 256, which seem to be remarkably faster than the 128-variant.
Absolutely. But it shows the SSD does in fact use four lanes and OS X’s universal AHCI driver happily talks to it.
Mine is also 256GB as seen on the screenshots. I just included a random image from the web to show what the SSD looks like, and it happened to be of the 128GB variant.
Can it also convert PCIe 2.0/3.0 ×4 to PCIe 1.0/2.0 ×16 when using one SSD? If it can and it works in the Quad, this might be an (expensive) way to leverage the ×8 and ×16 slots.
Already wondered about the write performance, which could not be as high for the 128GB card.Mine is also 256GB as seen on the screenshots. I just included a random image from the web to show what the SSD looks like, and it happened to be of the 128GB variant.
Maybe, it can. But i don't like to play around with vital parts of my main productive machine. And i - 100% for sure - will not purchase another one of these for the Quad, as my willingness of spending money in completely pointless and stupid things has reached an actual limit (again). 😉
I can still 100% recommend the Accelsior S as a fairly satisfying easy way out...I’m just waiting for this thread to settle down with everyone finding what they’re looking for and testing successfully in PCIe-land for AHCI m.2 SSDs. Then, I’m going to re-read the entire thread, start to end, to fully soak in all the amazing things all of y’all are discussing. That’s the best way I’ll be able to glean. Catching this in singular, post-reply-instalments is impressive, but overwhelming for my hamster-wheel brain.
As far as SATA III is concerned: the Sonnet Tempo SSD Pro must be a four-lane card — it’s said to do 730 MB/s via PCIe 1.0 with two SSDs — and is also said to work with Leopard’s built-in AHCI driver so it should work in a G5 too.
The truth is, i could have saved some time and money! 😎
rd=rdisk#s# to redirect the XNU boot process to the PCIe disk... Hmmm... May be a good idea to look at how XPostFacto does it.