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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 |
| We have performance comparison information on our web site. Check the performance tab on Tempo SSD or Tempo SSD Pro product page. This will give you a pretty good idea.
These numbers can be generalized. For one SSD you can infer from the table.
Read speed over Thunderbolt = 90% of rated read speed in a Mac Pro
Write speed over Thunderbolt = 80% of rated write speed in a Mac Pro.
Go to the manufacturer's SSD product page, check the speed rating and multiply by 90% and 80% for read and write, respectively, for performance over Thunderbolt.
For two SSDs in a RAID 0 in the Tempo SSD Pro using the original Thunderbolt 1 bandwidth limit, the speeds get capped at about 700MB/sec read and 560MB/sec write. There is no bandwidth limit for a two-SSD RAID 0 under Thunderbolt 2 or Thunderbolt 3. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| 15mm drives are slightly taller than allowed by the PCIe card specification. If the adjacent PCIe slot is empty, then 15mm drives may fit.
2TB 15mm drives typically require 12V. The initial Tempo SATA and Tempo SATA Pro did not provide +12V to the SATA Power connector. Tempo SATA cards (TSATA6-SSD-E2) with serial numbers B009180730003334 or greater, Tempo SATA Pro cards (TSATA6-SSDPR-E2) with serial numbers B00927073002838 or later, and all Tempo SATA Pro Plus (TSATA6-SSDPS-E2) cards provide 12V to the SATA power connector. |
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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 |
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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 |
| 1) Make a backup of the user folder
2) Copy the user folder to the SSD volume.
3) In System Preferences, open Users & Groups.
4) Unlock.
5) Right-Click on the user you moved to the SSD volume and select Advanced Options
6) Point the Home Directory to the user folder on the SSD volume. |
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1183 |
| The Write performance of my SSD is very slow under Windows. | Feb-14-23 |
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