edthecynic
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- Oct 20, 2008
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I have been looking into a NVMe M.2 PCIe adaptor for my 2008 Mac Pro 3,1. I have seen them for 2009 and newer Mac Pros, but I am having trouble finding out if it will work in my Mac Pro 3,1. The updated boot rom for M.2 NVMe SSD is installed by Mojave which is not supposed to run on a Mac Pro 3,1, but there are work arounds to get Mojave to install on a Mac Pro 3,1, but I don't know if that is enough to get it to work with the M.2 NVMe SSD.I rebuilt both of my desktops, they're both running NVMe M.2 SSDs........ Now that's fast!!!!If your computer has a PCIe slot you can install the SSD there with an adapter. I did that with my 2008 Mac Pro tower because the built in SATA was only SATAII whereas with the bootable PCIe adaptor I get the full SATAIII speed. My 12 year old Mac is now as fast as greased lightning!Was wondering because SATA is faster than PATA and eSATA is faster than SATA. Was thinking cost to benefit ratio of adding an SSD to a PATA connect, if the speed would be high enough due to PATA's limitations.It should. SSD are not only superior in terms of write and reading speed but also the access times are much shorter. This will make Windows much faster.Okay but how much faster will a PATA SSD be? Is it worth the expense?Not true. There are SSD with the old IDE interface for old computers available.
Otherwise, the higher you are the faster your computer will become, just drop it.