- #Samsung 850 evo 500 gb internal ssd for mac Patch
- #Samsung 850 evo 500 gb internal ssd for mac full
- #Samsung 850 evo 500 gb internal ssd for mac pro
But a 4tb boot drive at 980 mb/sec would be nice for sure.CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS TERMS OF USE
And I'm not sure if it's really as fast as the stock Apple one. Interestingly, OWC makes a replacement for the cylinder's boot drive that can go all the way to 4tb, but it's not m2, it's the Apple proprietary thing, which looks sort of like a gigantic m2 card. When I can get a TB box that holds a row of m2 sticks and can raid them into a single volume, and we have bigger m2 capacities, I might have to get on board, but for now the MultiDock and SATA drives is fine.
#Samsung 850 evo 500 gb internal ssd for mac full
I'm thinking the boot drive is probably similar technology to m2 drives, so I'm kind of looking forward to a Thunderbolt box that takes m2 drive sticks and can light them up at full speed, but I haven't seen any yet, and the biggest m2 stick I've seen is 1tb, whereas SATA Evo drives go to 4tb, so it will take a minute for the tech to mature.
#Samsung 850 evo 500 gb internal ssd for mac Patch
That's why I put the Omnisphere factory library on the cylinder's boot drive - finally I can flip through patches in Omnisphere without massive lag on patch switching. Interestingly, the internal Apple SSD boot drive in the cylinder shows a speed of 980 mb/sec on the same BlackMagic Speed Test app. Remember the days of trying to make sure your FW drive had the coveted "Oxford" bridge chip? Unfortunately, I do. In theory even SATA II is way faster than 500 mb/sec, so who knows? Remember that even the slick Thunderbolt MultiDock is still using SATA III internally - it's got some sort of SATA > Thunderbolt bridge chip in there, similar to the way all the FireWire drives of yore had various flavors of SATA > FireWire bridge chip. Not surprised that it's a little slower, but that might not be entirely due to SATA II vs SATA III - might be some other aspect of the hardware that keeps the lid on the speeds. I never really tested them in the silver tower, just plugged 'em in and got to work. My result comes from BlackMagic's SpeedTest app. I show about 370 mb/sec with the Evo drives in a BlackMagic MultiDock hooked up to the cylinder via Thunderbolt, even though Samsung quotes 500 mb/sec. Notice the difference between the various year's models on the OWC web pages below:
#Samsung 850 evo 500 gb internal ssd for mac pro
When it comes to internal drive tray adaptors, be very careful that the tray you are ordering is compatible with your specific year / model Mac Pro - the dimensions and configuration of the trays changed at one point in the lifespan of the silver towers, and they are NOT all the same. As the 1tb and 2tb Pro drives in my collection get cycled out of sample playback duty due to being replaced by bigger drives, they get repurposed as primary audio and project drives.Ĭlick the "Show More Specs" tab on these Samsung web pages for relative numbers on the write-cycle durability of Evo vs Pro: I have all Pro drives except for the two giant 4tb Evo drives I have, but the only reason I got those in the Evo model is because the Pro 4tb is not on the streets yet - but those two drives are only holding Kontakt libraries for playback, so no worries there.
In general, if you're using the drive to hold sample libraries for playback, you will be reading from the drive far more than you'll ever be writing to it, so for this application the Evo is probably fine. The Evo vs Pro decision is up to you - the Pro is technically rated for almost twice the total number of write cycles as the Evo, but whether you will ever reach that number of write cycles before the drive gets replaced by a newer model that has double the capacity at half the cost, only you can say. In the three or four years I've been using them I have not had any problems or issues of any kind, with a total of 12x 850pro 1tb, 8x 850pro 2tb, and 2x 850evo 4tb so far. I never used a third-party TRIM utility or worried or thought about it for a second. In no case have I done anything other than format them with the default settings in Apple Disc Utility. On the cylinder the drives are in the BlackMagic MultiDock via Thunderbolt. In the silver tower (mine is a 2010 12-core) I used them in both the four internal drive bays via OWC / MacSales tray adaptors and on a Sonnet Tempo Pro PCIe card. I've used Samsung 850 (both Evo and Pro) in both the silver tower Mac Pro and on the Mac Pro cylinder.
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