SSD on a Mac Pro early 2008

[Gus Johnson]

I have a Mac Pro early 2008 and am considering inserting PCIe card with USB 3.0 sockets.

Is it possible to have the Superior Drummer 3 SSD as an external drive via these USB 3s?
Speed would be about 100 to 130 mbps.

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[John]

Hi,

since all samples used are loaded into RAM, the USB speed only matters when you load a library. I.e. there is no disk streaming.
Make sure you have sufficient RAM.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[Brad]

Which version of OS X are running? I believe SD3 requires 10.6 and above.

Mac Studio M1 Max, RAM 64 GB, 1TB Drive, OSX 12.x/13.x and Windows 10 (VM)
DAW: Studio One 5/6, Pro Tools Studio
DTX Express III (Extreme triggers), Nektar LX88
OWC Thunderbay Mini (4 X 1TB Sata SSD), Express 4M2 (4 X 2TB M.2 SSD), Envoy Express (1TB M.2 SSD)
Presonus Quantum, Faderport & Faderport 8
Black Lion Sparrow Mk2 A/D, FMR-RNP-RNC, MIDI Xpress 128, BM5A, KRK VXT4, Equator D5
2020 Macbook Pro 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Audio(mobile rig)

[Gus Johnson]

@Brad said:
Which version of OS X are running? I believe SD3 requires 10.6 and above.  

El Capitan, OSX 10.11.6 with 16Gb RAM, about to increase it to 24Gb.
I don’t want to add too much because of heating issues.

AND, I have just found I can also insert USB 3.1 with PCIe card.

[Gus Johnson]

@John said:
Hi,

since all samples used are loaded into RAM, the USB speed only matters when you load a library. I.e. there is no disk streaming.
Make sure you have sufficient RAM.

BR,
John  

2 x 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Running El Capitan, OSX 10.11.6 with 16Gb RAM, about to increase it to 24Gb.
I don’t want to add too much because of heating issues.

AND, I have just found I can also insert USB 3.1 X 2 with PCIe card.

You won’t believe what I throw at her….two 2TB hard drives and one 3TB hard drive and another hard drive of 4TB.
She just keeps going and going…….

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