It looks like we are all going to be staring at those dunes til the end of time. That last bR update was mostly bug fixes, and as a result, Mojave runns much smoother than earlier point updates. He has so many SATA SSDs and one pair on his SATA3 card that's in RAID0, or about 1GB/s for his boot drive. He upgraded yesterday from 13.6 with his original bootROM to Mojave 14.5 bR 144.
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A friend with a monster 5,1was running High Sierra until Cap-1 got a version for Mojave. I'm running 14.5 with bootROM 144.0.0.0, and everything is copacetic. I mostly did it to get both a heat sink and a small fan and save the extra PCI slot for other hardware. That gives me the 2.7GB/s, Normal speeds max around 1.5GB/s for cMP. ($50 each with heat sync), so I sprung for the switch card which holds two M.2 NVMe blades and needs to be used in slot2 above the vid card X16. I had cheap PCI cards without the highly recommended heat sync. The 960 is somewhat slower, as are the write speeds. I have a 960 EVO as well in the SYBA switch card, getting 2.7GB/s reads. Replaced with the older EVO, and never looked back. I believe I was on 14.2 or.3 at the time. Personally and on the cMP Update guide blog. I hope that this thread is helpful to someone in the future.Ĭonfirmed, SAMSUNG 970 EVO+ is NOT compatible with cMPs. Interestingly, it looks like WD may not be the only external drive manufacturer that has a somewhat unusual process for formatting drives as AFPS. This may explain the odd behaviour that I was getting from the WD drive. I was unaware of this page when I was trying to get a WD My Passport SSD to work properly with AFPS (post #2), and it calls for more than a simple Disk Utility Erase/Convert. I believe that that should work, but for the moment I'm going to leave well enough aloneĪs part of this exercise, I discovered that WD has a page on converting its external drives to AFPS. If I decide to try to format it AFPS again, I'll do it via Disk Utility > Edit > Convert to AFPS rather than via Disk Utility's Graphical User Interface. Next, I formatted the disk exFAT, downloaded a game from Steam, and ran the game to make sure that the drive is working properly.įinally, I booted into macOS, where I was able to reformat the drive Extended (Journaled). It erased everything, including the two partitions. I ran Windows Command using the command DISKPART with the command "clean". It was also clear that the drive is healthy.
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Windows Disk Management showed that there were two partitions, one a Mac EFI partition, the other unallocated. I'm new to Boot Camp and didn't realise that all of Windows's disk management tools are available via Boot Camp. I've solved the problem and want to explain how in case others run into the same issue. On the upside, it looks like I inspired one friend to buy himself a new laptop To try that, I need a computer with a TB3 port, but calls today to friends with Windows computers came up blank. Looking at old threads, a couple of people have fixed this kind of problem, or similar, by formatting on a Windows or Linux machine, and then reformatting on a Mac. At that point, I ran Recovery First Aid, which said that the problem was fixed. Running Disk Utility First Aid initially said that there is a corruption problem. I've even tried Paragon Software's NTFS for Mac to see if I could format NTFS, but with the same result. I got as far as what you see in the photo (note "Container Disk3", no name), but can't go further.ĭisk Utility and Terminal both hang indefinitely when I try to create an APFS Volume or erase/reformat to another format, regardless of what format I choose, including efforts to return to Extended (Journaled). I decided to reformat it APFS and I'm running into significant problems. I have a 2018 Mac mini and I have this SSD as an external drive in a third party enclosure (TEKQ), which I successfully formatted Extended (Journaled).