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
Apple supports Boot Camp only on internal drives. See Apple's support page, Set up a Windows Partition on Your Mac, which states "The drive you're partitioning must be an internal drive." The Tempo SSD appears to the Mac Pro as an external drive, because it uses a controller connected to the PCIe bus, and not to a controller on the motherboard. Sonnet can't support a configuration that Apple doesn't support. If you want to use Boot Camp from an SSD, you need to make it an internal drive. Plug the SSD into a Sonnet Transposer, screw it into one of your Mac Pro trays, thereby making it an internal drive.

9TO5Mac has published a proceedure to install Boot Camp on an external drive, but Sonnet does not support this.

 
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
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