That would be defeatist, I’ve loved these machines since they were released and they’re true Mac. One single CPU and one dual.īut these machines are now 9 and 10 years old so you’d think they’d be slow and nothing would be nothing better than to turn them into hipster furniture. This means that I’m now the proud owner of two Mac 5,1’s. This is a bad, but also very good thing, as unlike me they don’t have the time to ass around dismantling and experimenting with old machines to see if they can make them faster, something that I just can’t resist. The issue is now friends who own video and photographic studios have bailed on Mac, the power just isn’t there, and confidence in Apple as a provider of Pro level creative equipment has evaporated. There are rumours of the modular MacPro 2019, but as yet nothing. To be honest I had been expecting a MacPro update in early 2019 but it shouldn’t have been a surprise when nothing materialised. How to boot your Mac Pro 5,1 from a Nvme SSD bootĪ fast and furious update to the Nvme WD Black SSD in the MacPro 5,1. That’s a huge increase in speed and now means that your machine should be able to handle editing 4K video without too much issue. You should see the Read/Write speeds leap to around 1500MB/s. Now check out the speed with Black Magic Disk Speed Test. That’s it, probably the easiest and fastest upgrade going.
In the Mac release the secring bracket and pop in the card.Install the Nvme SSD in to the PCIe card.Open the side and check the top PCIe slot is free.The SSD I’ve selected is the WD Black as this has sequential Read speeds of up to 2,050 MB/s. Once installed the card with SSD simply slots into the top X4 / RAID PCIe slot in the Mac Pro. This is relatively cheap and enables you to mount the Nvme module directly on. Star Tech x4 PCI Express to M.2 PCIe SSD Adapter Just one issue, the old Mac Pro’s don’t have the right type of port to connect one of these superfast drives directly so you’ll also need an adapter.
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