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- #Apricorn sata wire firmware drivers#
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You can (as in my case) also just use a single SSD. This card is nice, as it allows you to mount 2 SSDs, and has onboard hardware RAID0, which allows you to go even faster if needed. I found the Apricorn Velocity Duo dual SSD PCIe card had good reviews, and it is available for $150 on Amazon, so I placed my order and a couple days later had one ready to go into the machine. So my next step was to move to an SATA III PCIe card.
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Unfortunately, the 2009 Mac Pro only has SATA II on the motherboard. GB3 Single CPU GB3 Multi-CPU Cinebench CPU Cinebench OGL Disk Speed Read Disk Speed WriteĢ184 16607 883 51.36fps 265.7MB/s 260.4MB/sĪs expected there was little change in the Geekbench or Cinebench results, but there was a very nice roughly 4x speedup in Disk I/O. CPU (single and multi-processor): Geekbench 3.Looking around I settled on the following suite of benchmarks to track the changes at each stage of the upgrade: It also tends to have a great deal of disk I/O.
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The code I run is highly dependent on both the GPU as well as CPU processing. Unfortunately, since I can not run the CUDA/GPU code on this ancient Radeon HD 4870, I cant directly test the reason for this upgrade.
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So the target upgrade path is as follows:
#Apricorn sata wire firmware drivers#
Some firmware sorcerers have published a firmware update utility to essentially give the 4,1 machines all of the capabilities of the 5,1 machines (primarily the ability to use 6-core Westmere processors and 1333mhz RAM).Īdditionally there are SATA III controller cards primarily meant for SSD drives, greatly increasing disk I/O.įinally, the latest round of nvidia graphics cards draw low enough power to work with the Mac Pro, and have drivers available. The machine I started with was my 2009 Mac Pro with the following stats:Īfter reading through various blogs, forums and other sources online, I discoved that the early 2009 (model 4,1) Mac Pro, essentially has the same motherboard as the 2010-2012 (model 5,1) machines, with a different firmware. I thought this might be a topic of interest to some out there in the Achaia. Along the way, I benchmarked the system with each upgrade to see the step-wise change in speed. After doing some reading on a potential upgrade path for the 2009 Mac Pro, I decided to give it a try, and have yielded some impressive results. Due to a recent contract, I am in need of some more computational capacity. I also have a computation machine which is a 8-core 3ghz Haswell-E machine (overclocked to 4.2ghz), with a GTX Titan Black for CUDA, running linux. My development and day-to-day workstation is a 2009 8-core 2.66ghz Mac Pro which was getting long in the tooth. Quick background- I have my own consulting company, doing subsurface fluid flow modeling using a custom simulation code.