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It'll ride on a PCIe card, so the assembly should just pop in - hopefully - and allow continued use of the other four hard drive slots. The new SSD will become the startup drive. Looking forward to the speed bump - and should've done it a long time ago, but the thought that Apple might soon revise their MacPro line to something that has a more open architecture that the current computing cylinder kept hope alive. Obviously that's not happening anytime soon. And hope's run out.
The current system folder carries system data from more than a decade ago - particularly prefs and call home files. So losing those bits may kill some older software. Would you copy the current startup drive over to the SSD to start with or load a brand new system folder and then copy over other items - or forget all of that and do something completely different?
There's probably a best way to do this, and there might be plenty of wrong ways. Just wondering what psotters think.
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You mean a 2.5" SSD on a PCIe card?
And not a PCIe m.2 flash drive on a PCIe card?
You could get double speeds with a m.2 setup.
You dont really want to "copy" anything... clone or migrate. OSX has thousands of invisible system files that dont just "copy" over
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No, not a m.2 - it's 2.5" SSD . The m.2 option might work really well for boot and scratch disk, though. Only saw one option at OWC. hmmm…
Also, yes meant to use migrate (from TM) rather than copy. But that's exactly when the possibility of hundreds or thousands of old - possibly corrupt pref files and others comes into play.
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2.5" SSDs max at 550 MB/s -- depending on which OWC drive you bought, although for 2.5" SSDs the Neptune is by far and away their best bang for the buck, other options seem overkill.
m.2 drives can go much much much faster
http://barefeats.com/hard225.html
Not cheap, but if you are really looking for speed, its the best option. Maybe shop around vs only OWC.
Personally, I wouldnt worry about old system stuff. the likelyhood of a "corrupt" prefs files is really small.
Any chance you can just start from scratch? These days, no DVDs of software are needed, just download everything from the app store.
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Some of the older software that's used - like PS (it's their last version - CS6 - before moving to the subscription model) and some stuff for work (like Mathematica) have to load from DVDs or CDs, use SNs and call home for activation. Even then, Mathematica will likely have an issue with the number of times its been "reinstalled". Long gone are the days of Serial Monkey… or so it seems. Newer versions of software are even tied to particular machines and specific configurations (Mathematica is one of them). When that changes, the software goes to sleep.
Leaning towards just getting rid of a lot of the items that might only be used once a year or less (those will still be on a laptop, so they can be run from there) and then starting new as much as possible.
Hopefully, 2019 will be the year of the new Mac Pro that doesn't suck!
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Not sure what magic you think the new MacPro will have -- but multiple drive bays aint going to be one of them. And its gonna start @ $3000.
Its all external.
No way on old software. It will only run Mojave, minimum. And certainly no optical drive, natch.
You should make dmgs of the older software installers. And as I have said before, if you are really a big user of Photoshop... $10 a month for Ps & Lr is a great deal.
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m..2 Crucial would be my choice, if I do this with my Mac Pro.
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....don't forget Time Paradox.....
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bfd wrote:
Some of the older software that's used - like PS (it's their last version - CS6 - before moving to the subscription model) and some stuff for work (like Mathematica) have to load from DVDs or CDs, use SNs and call home for activation.
You can still download CS6 from Adobe (takes some hunting, but it is there. You will need your activation code though.
