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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The "in-box" driver loads for generic AHCI devices, but it won't start unless the specific device (ASMedia, for example) is listed in the "driver map files". They are located in /etc/vmware/driver.map.d/ahci.map in the vSphere system. Fortunately, Andreas Peetz, who runs a must-know VMWare site called www.v-front.de, describes this in some detail "How to make your unsupported SATA AHCI Controller work with ESXi 5.5 and 6.0, and has an xahci.map you can easily install that will fully enable the driver. We tested it, it seems to work for ASMedia cards. |
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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 |
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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 |
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1183 |
| The Write performance of my SSD is very slow under Windows. | Feb-14-23 |
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