Tempo SSD PCIe Card
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IDArticle TitlePost Date
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
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
735 My Tempo SSD, Tempo SSD Pro or Tempo SATA Pro 6Gb 4-Port card prevents my HP Z820 from booting.Dec-30-17
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
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.
 
964 Does the Tempo SSD, Tempo SSD Pro, or Tempo SSD Pro Plus work in a Magma Thunderbolt 1 ChassisDec-30-17
976 In a Mac Pro, the SSDs are seen as external drives, how do I prevent accidental ejects?Feb-14-23
987 Can I install a Boot Camp partition on my Tempo SSD in my Mac Pro?Jan-12-18
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
1011 How do I use Sonnet's SATA cards in VMWare/vSphere 5.5+?Mar-27-18
1012 Do Sonnet SATA cards support NexStar Dual Bay Drive Docks and Icy Box IB-3640SU3 with SATA interface?Oct-04-19
No. There is something non-standard about these products that are not supported by in-box AHCI SATA drivers. There is nothing Sonnet can do to fix this.
 
1064 In a Mac Pro, can I install Windows on a Tempo SSD or SSD Pro Plus?Jul-15-19
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.
 
1095 I'm using this card with macOS 10.15 and am experiencing Kernel PanicsMar-15-20
1126 Option-boot doesn't function in Mac Pro 5,1 when a bootable Mac OS is installed on a Tempo SSDJan-02-21
There were two versions of Tempo SSD.

The original version used the Marvell 88SE9182 SATA controller.
The current version uses an ASMedia ASM1062 SATA controller.

With the discontinued Marvell controller, if a bootable volume is created on a Tempo SSD, option-boot works fine in the Mac Pro 3,1, 4,1, and 7,1 (2019), but not in the Mac Pro 5,1. The recommended workaround in a Mac Pro 5,1 is to select the boot volume in the Startup Disk System Preferences and restart. If the Tempo SSD has only data volume(s) (not bootable volumes), then option

With the current ASMedia controller, option-boot works fine in the Mac Pro 5,1.
 
1136 How can I use my new SSD volume to hold my user folder on macOS?Feb-14-23
1183 The Write performance of my SSD is very slow under Windows.Feb-14-23