SATA standards are all backwards compatible, right? Well, not necessarily. Researching upgrade options for the 2010 iMac on my desk has been a real learning experience. Some SATA III hard drives are auto-sensing and thus compatible with SATA II and SATA I ports, but some SATA III hard drives are fixed speed only and thus not backward compatible with SATA II Macs (and PCs) unless you can add a SATA III card. It does work the other way. You can put a SATA II hard drive in a SATA III computer, and it will work just fine. Jump to MacBook Pro (Late 2016 – Mid 2017) - 3 and 4 drives, and have the same form factor found in the Gen. The Late 2016 MacBook Pro offered either a 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB. Any options for an I ternal pcie ssd to 2.5″ sata enclosure? Ever since Apple introduced their proprietary “blade” SSDs in 2010,. The hardware on the logic board handles that. But to trim the cost of producing hard drives, several manufacturers have switched to fixed-speed SATA III drives. And that’s not a problem for most computers built since 2011. That is a problem if you’re trying to use a fixed-speed SATA III drive with a SATA I or SATA II computer, such as this iMac. 2011-05-16 - Related:, Some existing and prospective and customers have expressed concern about investing in a Mac Pro now versus a new model (of unknown arrival time— last year it was August). One of those concerns is the 6 Gbps SATA III support for. But in fact, a 2009 or 2010 Mac Pro has at least one killer PCIe card solution already announced, the. That solution will almost certainly be faster than internal drive bays, even with a new Mac Pro, because the PCIe solution gets the full PCIe bandwidth. And it will work in existing Mac Pro systems and leave the drive bays open for hard drives, e.g. ![]() So in my view, a PCIe solution is the best possible way to go, with maximum performance and the ability to stuff in 12TB of hard drive storage as well. I know of another PCIe solution coming, though I am not at liberty to say when or from what company, but it will provide similar PCIe-based functionality. So bottom line is that 6 Gbps SATA is not a reason by itself to defer purchasing a Mac Pro or getting an. As for, peripherals are not likely to appear before the fall, won’t be cheap, and it would be surprising if a Thunderbolt PCIe card did not also appear in that time frame. Besides, can provide pro-grade external storage already. Yes, a new Mac Pro might have other goodies, but so far the processors and motherboard have yet to appear that would enable a meaningful jump. Ideally, one buys at just the right part of the product cycle, but for professionals with work to do, the time to buy is when getting work done is impaired by an existing system. Here’s, and don’t forget that. Thank you for remembering to use the links from this site when you do buy any Apple products.
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