Setting up the unit is just a matter of unscrewing the outer cover, removing the heat sink, and depositing four drives. The x16 card, which features four slots for four single-sided M.2 blades, allocates four PCIe lanes per card.
Sonnet reached out to me last week to see if I’d be interested in taking its M.2 4×4 PCIe Card for a test drive in my Mac Pro, and I happily obliged. Watch our hands-on video review for the details. When paired with the right SSDs, the Sonnet M.2 4×4 PCIe Card produces speeds of the bonkers variety.ĭuring benchmark tests with the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test utility, I was getting write speeds in that easily surpassed 6,000 MB/s, and read speeds that eclipsed 7000 MB/s.įor comparison’s sake, Apple’s fastest 8 TB SSD produces speeds “only” up to 3400 MB/s, so this setup is capable of running circles around the Mac Pro’s fastest built-in SSD for less money. If you’re looking for the fastest SSD available for the Mac Pro, then this may be the solution for you.
