Interestingly, the GTX 670 seems to be okay and I'm typing this message on the Mac Pro this very minute. I will check out the link you kindly posted.
OWC has some good resources and they sell components which should be tested to work. This is a bit of a side project and I'm just trying to squeeze a bit more performance out of this old Mac Pro.įirst you need a Metal-compatible video card, then you need an adaptor that supports booting the Mac. I will look into the sources you suggested. I know that your machine is powerful but this reference is a shows how a guy boots Ubuntu on the Mac from a USB which may give you a few clues. If it does then it is the Mac boot loader and then it is a case of reinstalling that on the Samsung EVO. Based on 228052 user benchmarks for the Apple SM0256G PCIe and the Samsung 860 Evo, we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the. If that works, then add the adaptor with your Samsung EVO on it and perhaps an Ubuntu on it to see if that works. mac pro hard drive replacement 4GB Ram Laptops - Shop Online : Dell Latitude E6420 Intel Samsung 860 Pro 1TB SATA III SSD Review Samsung 850 EVO. I would step through the stages by getting it to boot from the port that you have your adaptor plugged into. So the Mac boot loader may not play ball as you want it to. Also, modern boot loaders recognise the HD/SSD/etc as individual devices. However, when you clone a drive, it will be an exact copy of the original inside the Mac including the boot loader and you are operating the clone outside the Mac.
