The way to go with a Mac Pro tower is to put the SSD in the 2nd Optical bay, using a 5.25" adapter. The Optical bay is definitely a 5.25" to 2.5" adapter, and I buy mine at Newegg. You also need an adapter for going from Molex power to SATA power connector, and a sata cable to go from the additional connector on the Mac Motherboard to the drive.
Mac Pro tower motherboards for all the Intel models have six sata ports, 4 for the internal bays, and two additional for the optical bays.
A word on SSDs. I only use Samsung SSDs in Macs. Per Apple, Samsung is a technology partner, and as a result the firmware is always compatible. I have had trouble with using SanDisk, as they sometimes don't negotiate the full speed on the sata link, and I have seen Crucial SSDs just plain fail early on. With a current Samsung SSD, you should see speeds of 500MB/sec sequential read/write. The larger capacity drives are faster. Per tech blogs I read, Samsung is one of the few SSD manufacturers who produce their own parts for the entire drive, so they are leading in innovation and performance.
The only way to get faster internal storage from Solid State is to get one of the OWC drives that goes on a PCIe card, but I don't know if you have an extra PCIe slot in you tower, and they are way more expensive.
And finally, as mentioned in a previous post, be sure to enable TRIM support. I usually use the cindori Trim Enabler:
Please note, there are some concerns depending on which version of Mac OSX you are running, for example in Yosemite Trim Enabler disables Apple's newly enabled global kext signing (read on website about this).
Enjoy the better performance and really fast boot times.
Dave Hogan
Burbank, CA
On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 6:57 AM, "Wilson Chao wilsonchao@gmail.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I too always add eSATA ports to my machines but there's no need to buy a "card". All modern PCs have internal SATA headers on the motherboard so you can just run a ribbon cable to an eSATA connector:
(I'm speaking about PCs; dunno about Macs).
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Greg Huson Greg@SecretHQ.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Unless the cpu is mobile, or you plan on adding a blu ray burner, just toss the ssd into the second optical slot and be done with it. I don't even bother to bolt them down any more- they weigh nothing and the cable us stiff.Absolutely add the Usb / eSata card.
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