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661 | 
| I'm using OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSDs with a Tempo SSD or Tempo SSD Pro adapter in a Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis and the system hangs after waking from sleep. | Oct-01-16 |
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731 |
| How fast will an SSD be in an Echo Express Thunderbolt chassis using the Tempo SSD, SSD Pro or SSD Pro Plus? | Dec-30-17 |
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735 | 
| My Tempo SSD, Tempo SSD Pro or Tempo SATA Pro 6Gb 4-Port card prevents my HP Z820 from booting. | Dec-30-17 |
| You need to update the BIOS to Version 2.55 Rev A or newer available here: http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=5228610&lang=en&cc=us |
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758 |
| Can I install Mac OS directly onto SSDs (or an SSD RAID) on the card? Will I get a recovery partition? | Dec-30-17 |
| Yes, you can install a bootable macOS (10.6.8-10.12.6) for Mac Pro 3,1 and newer on a single SSD, a RAID of 2 SSDs, a RAID of 4 SSDs (using two Tempo SSD Pros), or a RAID of 6 SSDs (using three Tempo SSD Pros). Note that macOS 10.13+ does not support booting from a RAID. In order to get a recovery partition, you need to run the Mac OS installer and it will create the recovery partition automatically. The recovery partition will not be created if you try to copy the OS from an existing drive (using Carbon Copy Cloner, for example). |
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777 |
| Does the Tempo SSD, Tempo SSD Pro, or Tempo SSD Pro Plus support 15mm 2.5" drives? | Dec-30-17 |
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964 |
| Does the Tempo SSD, Tempo SSD Pro, or Tempo SSD Pro Plus work in a Magma Thunderbolt 1 Chassis | Dec-30-17 |
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976 |
| In a Mac Pro, the SSDs are seen as external drives, how do I prevent accidental ejects? | Feb-14-23 |
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987 |
| Can I install a Boot Camp partition on my Tempo SSD in my Mac Pro? | Jan-12-18 |
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992 |
| The write speed of my Samsung 830, 840, 840 EVO, 840 PRO, 850 EVO or 850 PRO has slowed to below 100MB/s. | Mar-30-20 |
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1011 |
| How do I use Sonnet's SATA cards in VMWare/vSphere 5.5+? | Mar-27-18 |
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1012 |
| Do Sonnet SATA cards support NexStar Dual Bay Drive Docks and Icy Box IB-3640SU3 with SATA interface? | Oct-04-19 |
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1064 |
| In a Mac Pro, can I install Windows on a Tempo SSD or SSD Pro Plus? | Jul-15-19 |
| You can't run Bootcamp on the Sonnet Tempo SSD or SSD Pro Plus. However, you can format the SSD on the Tempo SSD or SSD Pro Plus with a GPT (GUID) partition map, install Windows 10 in UEFI mode on one SSD, and boot from it.
You must install the Bootcamp drivers (not the Bootcamp assistant). To get the Bootcamp drivers you start Bootcamp and look for a menu item to download Apple support. That downloads machine specific Apple drivers. There may be a way to get those drivers directly from Apple's website but we don't have the link. You must install this support before the machine reboots after a Windows install. Note that when the Windows installer sees the GPT partition map, it defaults to UEFI mode.
Note that option-boot will not work. This is how you select the startup disk...
•If you boot the macOS, you can open System Preferences->Startup Disk, and select the Windows disk
•If you boot Windows, you open Control Panel->Bootcamp and select the macOS disk. (When you install the Bootcamp drivers, you get this control panel in Windows that lets you select the macOS.)
•Or, you can zap the PRAM, which will default back to the maOS.
Only Windows 10 is supported; and there is an install order if you put macOS and Windows on two SSDs (install macOS first, Windows second). Be prepared to clean the disk and install more than once; the Windows installer sometimes hangs during the install. |
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1073 |
| How do I configure RAID under macOS? | Feb-14-23 |
| Create a disk set using Disk Utility on macOS
1. You can create a Redundant Array of Independent SSDs (RAID) set to optimize storage performance, or increase reliability in case of a SSD failure. You can also create a set that concatenates smaller SSDs to act as one larger SSD.
2. In the Disk Utility app on your Mac, choose File Menu -> RAID Assistant.
3. Select a Set type:
• Striped (RAID 0) Set: A striped RAID set can speed up access to your data. You can't create a RAID set on a startup SSD; you must start up your computer from a single SSD.
• Mirrored (RAID 1) Set: Protect your data against hardware failure with a mirrored RAID set. When you create a mirrored RAID set, your data is written to multiple SSDs so the information is stored redundantly. You can't create a RAID set on a startup SSD; you must start up your computer from a single SSD.
• Concatenated Set: Increase storage space with a concatenated SSD set. If you need one large SSD, but you have several smaller SSDs, you can create a concatenated SSD set to use as one large SSD.
4. Select the checkboxes of the SSDs you want to include in the set.
5. For each SSD, click the pop-up menu in the Role column and choose "RAID slice" or "Spare" to designate the disk as a standard member or spare in the set, then click Next.
6. Enter a name for the RAID set in the RAID Name field.
7. Click the Format pop-up menu, then choose a volume format that you want for all the disks in the set. (See File system formats available in Disk Utility.)
8. Click the "Chunk size" pop-up menu, then choose a disk chunk size that you want used for all the disks.
When you create a striped set, chunks of data from the same file are distributed across the SSDs. Ideally, you want data distributed across SSDs evenly and at an optimum size so that it can be efficiently accessed. If you want high data throughput from your set, choose a smaller chunk size so that data is spread across the drives and one drive can be accessing data while another is seeking the next chunk. With mirrored disk sets, choose a chunk size that matches the data you are accessing. For example, when working with video files, your Mac is accessing large chunks of data, whereas when using a database of many small records, your disks may be accessing smaller chunks of information.
9. If you are creating a mirrored RAID set, select the "Automatically rebuild" checkbox to allow the set to be automatically rebuilt when member disks are reconnected.
10. Click Create.
11. Click Done. |
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1095 |
| I'm using this card with macOS 10.15 and am experiencing Kernel Panics | Mar-15-20 |
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1126 |
| Option-boot doesn't function in Mac Pro 5,1 when a bootable Mac OS is installed on a Tempo SSD | Jan-02-21 |
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1136 |
| How can I use my new SSD volume to hold my user folder on macOS? | Feb-14-23 |
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1183 |
| The Write performance of my SSD is very slow under Windows. | Feb-14-23 |
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