Pro Caddy V for 2019 Mac Pro

September 2nd, 2020 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist
September 18th - added RAID 5 results

Trans International has come up with a way to stuff up to 10 SSDs inside your 2019 Mac Pro.

GRAPH LEGEND

BM = Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
ATTO = ATTO Disk Benchmark
AJA = AJA System Test

TEST MULE:
2019 Mac Pro 12-core 3.30GHz Xeon W-3235 CPU, 96GB of 2933 MHz DDR4 ECC memory along with Pro Caddy V, power cables, data cables, 10 TIGER SSDs, and ARECA ARC-1883ix-12 SAS RAID controller.

RAID 0 - Large Sequential READ
Ten SSDs in a RAID 0 array. (HIGHER MB/s = FASTER)

RAID 0 - Large Sequential WRITE
Ten SSDs in a RAID 0 array. (HIGHER MB/s = FASTER)

RAID 5 - Large Sequential READ
Ten SSDs in a RAID 5 array. (HIGHER MB/s = FASTER)

RAID 5 - Large Sequential WRITE
Ten SSDs in a RAID 5 array. (HIGHER MB/s = FASTER)

WHAT DID WE LEARN?

The Trans International Pro Caddy V provides a way to add up to 10 TIGER SSDs inside the 2019 Mac Pro.

The power is provided by 10 connector cable array that plugs into the power port on the backplane. The 10 data connectors came from triple cables plugged into the ARECA ARC-1883ix-12 SAS RAID controller installed in a PCIe slot.

Trans International makes 6 different Caddy's designed to hold various types of drives including spinning Hard Drives.

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