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The first card the Solox1 would give you about 33% more speed than the maximum SATA II can give you but might be slightly slower than the SSD itself could achieve, the Solox2 would easily cope with the speed of any SSD SATA drive.

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These specifically state they will work as Mac boot drives. This might cost more but would be the way I would go. In view of the above I would personally use a different brand that does not need a power lead. However it seems that contrary to some information I had seen this card needs an additional power cable, this could be taken from the normally spare optical drive bay or if one of the PCIe aux-power leads is unused that could be used.

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Also, you wouldnвЂ™t be able to boot into Windows after selecting its drive as bootable in macOS Preferences Startup disk.

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(It does come with a Windows driver so as long as you install the driver in to Windows before connecting the drive to this card Boot Camp would work.) It has been discovered that Windows when installed in EFI mode is corrupting the Mac ProвЂ™s firmware by signing it with multiple Secure Boot (X.509) certificates. I did find this thread / which suggests someone else has successfully used it in a Mac Pro.

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This has been my experience with other makes of PCIe SATA card in a Mac Pro although I have not personally tried this Sedna one. Typically these PCIe cards use a generic driver provider by Apple in their firmware and operating system and you do not need to install a Mac driver. I have also had success with an ATTO Tech ExpressSAS card. I can confirm that OS X boots with no problems on the above StarTech card, and if you first install the Windows driver then Windows via Boot Camp also works. You would need to install the Windows driver for whichever SATA III card you use before moving the Boot Camp drive to the new SATA III connection.

Note: if you do use either means of upgrading to SATA III then there is an issue with Windows via Boot Camp. All you need is a suitable PCIe SATA controller card like this s-SATA-III-RAID-Controller-Card-Mini-SASвЂ¦ and a mini-SAS extension cable like this 8174.1388397850 As it happens your 2008 model is easy to do this for than later 2009, 20 models. The method of upgrading all four of your existing drive bays would require as mentioned a SATA PCIe controller card. One word of caution, a few might not support booting from them. This is still not as fast as a PCIe type SSD drive which does not use SATA at all but lets you use the SSD you have already purchased.ДЄ PCIe adapter to fit your SSD to would be something like this - there are lots of makes, some come with SSD drives some without. I believe a SATA III SSD would then give you between 400MBps and 450MBps speed which is a reasonable amount above the SATA II limit. Both these approaches will then give you SATA III at 600MBps.

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You can either get a SATA III PCIe controller card to upgrade the internal drive bays, or you can get a PCIe adapter card on to which you fit the SSD directly. The standard drive bays in all the classic Mac Pro models including your 2008 model is only SATA II which is 300MBps, this is slower than an SSD SATA drive can operate at and will therefore limit the performance but will still be faster than a hard drive. You might want to also consider a different and yes more expensive approach. I personally do successfully use the NewerTech 3.5' to 2.5' adapter mentioned by kaz-k. OWC do make a drive sled for a Mac Pro specifically for 2.5' drives but this is only for the 2009, 2010, and 2012 models so will not fit your 2008 model. If they do not have the PCIe switch chip or are BIOS locked, then they will be similarly hard to work with as this Dell 4x m.2 PCIe x16 card.Some people have simply plugged the 2.5' drive in and used tape to hold it in place, this works but is not the prettiest or most robust solution. The big questions are whether the HP Z Turbo Quad Pro has a PCIe switch chip, and if so, are the cards BIOS locked to prevent them from being used in other systems? If they do have the PCIe switch chip and are not BIOS locked, they will be good solutions. (See the piece on Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2E4R and AOC-SLG3-2E4 differences.) When we look at the Dell card, it does not have the PCIe switch chip and is why the card is not compatible with every system. Likewise, the Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2E4 has an Avago/ PLX switch chip onboard and thus can take the single PCIe x8 slot and use it for two devices.

Otherwise CPU PCIe lanes cannot handle two PCIe devices on a single PCIe slot. Since macOS High Sierra, NVM e support has been officially included with the IONVMeFamily kernel extension and v10.13 also updated the EFI firmware of most of AppleвЂ™s current systems to include boot support for these drives. The Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2E4R will only work in motherboards that have PCIe switches onboard. It turns out that putting an NVM e drive into a MacBook Pro to replace the proprietary Apple blade is possible these days. We have a picture of the two cards we used in our adding 2.5вЂі NVMe to a desktop/ server article from a few months ago. The reason this card, and possibly the HP Z Turbo Quad Pro will be a bad fit for most systems is not just вЂњBIOS lockingвЂќ but it is an issue of PCIe bifurcation.

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