ergot Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 Hi , Is anyone try out an NVME PCI-e controller on a Mac OS? I am considering to buy one and I have 2 options: Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Quad NVMe M.2 PCIe x16 Card https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0714MMD6M/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=all&qid=1537779895&sr=1-1 Or Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Card Expansion NV Me M.2 https://www.amazon.com/Asus-Hyper-M-2-x16-Card/dp/B0753JTJTG/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1537780337&sr=1-3&keywords=asus+hyper+m.2+x16+pcie+expansion+card the DELL cost about 110$ (found a cheap saller) and the Asus about 70$, I heard that the Asus is plug and play card but need to try, any recommendation? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 Hi I have a different Asus model and it is working well without any drivers in OSX or windows on this adapter I have a samsung 960 pro (1 tb) https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboard-Accessory/HYPER_M2_X4_MINI_CARD/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ergot Posted September 24, 2018 Author Share Posted September 24, 2018 thanks fabiosun, I have a generic adapter for my Pro 950 and its working fine with full bandwidth speed X4 on PCIeX16, I want to create a RAID 0 with a cheap 1TB NVME drives for video work, hopefully the Asus adapter will work... the NVME drives are locally made here in China with R/W speed of about 2000mb/s cost about 145$ comparing the 970 pro 1tb 400$... Testing time ahead... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 there are many nvme to pciE adapter at cheap price on amazon Problem could be temperature and relative down speed then 2000 mb/s is good for 4k and more timeline ..but 4000 mb/s is better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ergot Posted September 26, 2018 Author Share Posted September 26, 2018 well both of the cards are not compatible with X99 motherboard the only option for me is the really expensive HighPoint card (400$ and above) which can "act" as a RAID controller and this card supported by OSX OOTB as I read... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ergot Posted September 27, 2018 Author Share Posted September 27, 2018 (edited) Thank you for your reply ! when you say the HighPoint is bootable with clover, any setting need to be done in clover for RAID boot, or ...? my CPU have 40 lanes it should be enough although I was thinking to add another Tesla card for computing but then I will left with only 8x...and maybe causes bottleneck in my system. Buying X299 system will be expensive for my needs right now... Now I have already a cheap adapter (cost me less than 10$) which running fine on both HS and Mojave. Since I’m working with video files I want the fastest drive for editing, caching etc. Edited September 27, 2018 by ergot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ergot Posted September 27, 2018 Author Share Posted September 27, 2018 Thank you so much for your reply! I surely will try your suggestions running GPU at 8x lane, I read that performance are almost equally as 16x and I don’t play games... I will update once I’ll set up the HW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ergot Posted September 27, 2018 Author Share Posted September 27, 2018 By the way, I heard that SM981 drives are the oem for 970 pro, which are a bit cheaper, also what are the difference between PM981 (have great R/W) and the pro series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtddd Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 7 hours ago, antoniooninato said: hi just like you said the SM981 is the OEM version of the 970 PRO so they should be almost identical in terms of speed yes there is almost no performance loss in running the GPU at 8x vs running the GPU at 16x hi, SM981 is released? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinicius P. Miranda Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Guys, were you able to monitor the temperature correctly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtddd Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 @antoniooninato great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtddd Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 @@antoniooninato.. great...i only has a sm961 of 256g to run mojave...that is right the ssd price is a little cheaper than before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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