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| In a Mac Pro, the SSDs are seen as external drives, how do I prevent accidental ejects? | Feb-14-23 |
| There is no provision in macOS to make SSDs on a PCIe card to appear as internal and non-ejectable. If you want to prevent accidental ejection, open a file on the volume with Text Edit, which will prevent macOS from ejecting the volume, because a file will be in use by Text Edit. |
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1069 | 
| How do I configure RAID under Windows 10? | Feb-14-23 |
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1070 |
| Option-boot doesn't function when a bootable Mac OS is installed on an M.2 4x4 PCIe Card | May-22-20 |
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1073 |
| How do I configure RAID under macOS? | Feb-14-23 |
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1077 |
| Programming SSDs to 4k Block Size for Compatibility With macOS 10.13.6 | Feb-08-23 |
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1082 |
| I would like to use double-sided SSDs. How can I do this? | Jul-04-20 |
| Here is an guideline for users with some technical skills. Sonnet does not support this modification, but if you are up for it, here you go. Read the complete instructions before starting.
The thermal pad on the M.2 4x4 is pre-installed for single-sided SSDs. If you would like to use double-sided SSDs, you need to make a modification to the cooling system.
1. Remove the thermal pad pre-attached to the PCIe card. (Do not remove the thermal pad pre-attached to the heat sink!)
2. Get some thermal tape that is 20mm wide x 0.25mm thick. This is available on Amazon.
3. Cut four 70mm strips of tape, peel off the bottom covers from the tape, and stick a strip of tape under each M.2 position. This is the correct thickness for the two FLASH memory chips on the back end of the M.2 stick.
4. Peel off the top covers from the tape.
5. Cut four 30mm strips of tape, peel of the bottom covers from the tape, and stick a strip of tape under each M.2 position near the connector end. Two strips stacked is the correct thickness for the SRAM memory chip on the front end the M.2 stick.
6. Peel off the top covers from the tape.
7. Install the SSDs in their sockets and screw them down.
***Warning, the SSDs will be difficult to remove once stuck to the tape.***
If you need to remove and replace the SSDs, remove the SSD from the thermal tape carefully. |
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1087 |
| Can I install macOS 10.15 (Catalina) on a Mac Pro 5,1 using the M.2 4x4 card? | May-22-20 |
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1122 |
| Thunderbolt 3 NVMe volumes may experience a stop error under Windows 10 version 20H2 | Feb-14-23 |
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1125 |
| Can I start with one SSD and add more later? | Dec-29-20 |
| You can populate the M.2 SSDs over time. The card will work with one, two, three, or four in any combination of slots.
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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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