MP 7,1 What brand NVME cards do you use/recommend with the Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe Card on Mac Pro 2019?

[gory]

Curious, what brand NVME cards do you use/recommend with the Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe Card on Mac Pro 2019? I am running Sequoia 15.1.1

What brand/model nvme do you recommend has the best mix of speed/reliability in your experience?

Has anyone managed to get a Samsung 990 Pro to work in this setup, or is it not supported?

 

[eva2000]

There's a compatibility list on their site if this is the right model https://www.sonnettech.com/product/legacyproducts/m2-4x4-pcie-card.html

PDF at https://sonnettech.com/support/downloads/manuals/M2_compatibility.pdf

from review https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/23/review-sonnet-m-2-4x4-pcie-ssd-macos-mac-pro-video/

Sonnet reached out to me last week to see if I’d be interested in taking its M.2 4×4 PCIe Card for a test drive in my Mac Pro, and I happily obliged. The x16 card, which features four slots for four single-sided M.2 blades, allocates four PCIe lanes per card.

Setting up the unit is just a matter of unscrewing the outer cover, removing the heat sink, and depositing four drives. Sonnet pre-filled four Samsung EVO 970 M.2 SSDs for me to test, which offer sequential read and write performance levels of up to 3,500 MB/s and 2,500 MB/s, respectively.

Keep in mind that Sonnet says that only SSDs with memory components on the top side of the module are compatible with this card. For that reason, double-sided memory component M.2 SSD media is not recommended. See Sonnet’s tech specs for additional details.

 

[gory]

There's a compatibility list on their site if this is the right model https://www.sonnettech.com/product/legacyproducts/m2-4x4-pcie-card.html

PDF at https://sonnettech.com/support/downloads/manuals/M2_compatibility.pdf

from review https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/23/review-sonnet-m-2-4x4-pcie-ssd-macos-mac-pro-video/

Thanks, yes that is the one. I have seen this compatibility list, but have seen contradictory reports. While the list says the Samsung 990 Pro nvme works on it for example, others have said it is incompatible with the Mac Pro 2019. It is hard to know what is correct?