OWC’s latest drive is USB4, so it supports USB4, USB 3.2, USB 2 AND Thunderbolt 3 & 4, which is $119.99 empty and up to $1299.99 for an 8TB.
I just find it exciting for future OWC products to all be USB 4 so compatible with everything.
And according to Mac Performance Guide the large version is fast, faster than internal Mac Pro drives!
From DIY Photography. Even after an Austrian company has shown that it is a hardware they deny, because they would have return money instead of giving out more defective drives as replacements and doing nothing about lost data.
I have already lost one drive to this and relegated any SanDisk drives I have to media cache duty as if they die oh well.
Honestly after years of loving SanDisk I will never buy another SanDisk and they should have to solve the issue or give refunds.
I had gotten this as a backup for my Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 6K Pro (my main drive is a Samsung T5) so I had not really used it, especially once the whole thing of SanDisk drives failing, I didn’t really use it.
Then Western Digital came out with the serial number chacker and my drive passed, so decided to use it for a project I was color correcting on my iPad Pro. I worked on a quick color correct on a short for a couple of days, and then tried to move the project back to my Mac.
I opened the project in DaVinci and re-linked the media and started going down the timeline, and got about 10 shots in, when the drive disconnected. I tried reconnecting it and it came back up, and stayed online for a few minutes, then disconnected.
Now I basically used the drive only because Western Digital said it wasn’t a bad one. So they say they are giving me an RMA and when I return the drive they will send a replacement. Nothing about the media I lost. And will I trust a new one? Not really. Maybe I can use it as a Media Cache, as if I lose renders who cares, but for anything important no damn way!
SanDisk should pull these drives completely and return our money, and a bonus for the lost media. I will never use another SanDisk Drive. How can I trust them.
This involves replacing the processors with Dual 6 CPU’s which you can now get for around $650 (or less for a slightly slower model) installing dual SSD’s for a startup drive, an NVIDIA Titan X with 12 GB of Video RAM, 64 GB of 1333MHz RAM, 2 6TB internals and a 4TB internal. This is all doable for around $4000, much cheaper than a new Trashcan Macpro with the added bonus of an NVIDIA graphics card VS the unupgradeable ATI graphics cards in the new MacPro.
Honestly if I had the money this is what I would love to do with my Mac! It would give me years more life with my Mac and really make it fast!
This is huge news that is all over the internet, it seems that Apple with OS X Yosemite has removed support for third party SSD in OS X 10.10 Yosemite. If you are using it as a boot drive with TRIM enabled (which cleans up garbage on an SSD) it will not boot of of it. This is due to a security update called KEXT SIGNING. It is possible to disable KEXT SIGNING, but if you do it does it across the board and not just for TRIM and will leave your system insecure.
Now this doesn’t affect may except power users, and neither does it affect SSD’s from Other World Computing, which do not need TRIM to work correctly.
I wonder what this means for Hackintosh’s? Probably means turning off KEXT SIGNING.
I have always waned to upgrade my old MacPro to SSD to speed it up, but just couldn’t afford it. I was thinking a Sonnet Tech Temp SSD Pro Plus 6 Gb/s Host, and one 6 GB 480gb Mercury Extreme Pro 480 GB, but that would be around $700, but would leave room for a second SSD. It would be a pain to move everything from my personal drive to a second drive, but I think not only would the SSD speed things up, but it would be great to start with a fresh system again, as my system has some serious issues that a fresh install would likely fix.
Still not something that is going to happen any time soon.
Appleinsider has heard rumors of Apple working on 2 GB SSD’s for the new MacPro with a standard SATA connector.
And while that would be awesome, at least for a boot drive, the cost would be so prohibitively expensive that it would be useless! And the fusion drives scare me as if one drive goes you lose everything (though you should be backing it up anyway). Still the most hopefully thing out of this is that maybe we will be getting a new MacPro soon. I SURE HOP SO!!!
Mactech has this exciting news. Now you can get one of the PCI card based SSD housings from Sonnet Technologies and Macsales (which can fit one or two high speed SSD drives) and you can now boot the system off of it. Nice! This should really speed up a lagging MacPro.