PCI SSD in Mac Pro

[maskedscientist]

I've been shopping around for SSDs. Most high end SSDs read at about 270mb/s. Then, I found this.

Do you think this will work in my Mac Pro? Once I win the lottery , I'm thinking of buying this. Is the Mac Pro capable of reading, and booting off of a PCI hard drive?

 

[gugucom]

I'm sure it will work in a Mac somehow. But is is designed to boot into Bios obviously and isn't capable to boot Os X. It may run somehow with Windows. But without a proper EFI integration and OS X booting it makes little sense. I would rather buy an Areca 12XX RAID card and an DX4 SSD holder plus two or three Intel 2nd Gen 80 GB SSDs.

 

[nanofrog]

I'm sure it will work in a Mac somehow. But is is designed to boot into Bios obviously and isn't capable to boot Os X. It may run somehow with Windows. But without a proper EFI integration and OS X booting it makes little sense. I would rather buy an Areca 12XX RAID card and an DX4 SSD holder plus two or three Intel 2nd Gen 80 GB SSDs.

Yep.

It's 4x SSD's and a RAID card in a single device. The firmware is definitely BIOS, and there's not even drivers for non-boot usage under OS X.

So Windows ONLY operation would be possible.

 

[maskedscientist]

Windows ONLY operation would be possible.

That's like getting your p**** chopped off. LOL

 

[maskedscientist]

Well...

I think I will just get either 2 OCZ Colossus' or 2 Vertexs