$1500 of SSDs in a Mac Pro.... with a Sonnet 4x4 M.2 Silent
In this video, I review the Sonnet 4x4 M.2 Silent by doing the most stupid thing imaginable: Sticking it in a Mac Pro 2008, This is part review, part explainer on Apple's (mis)handling of PCIe on the Mac platform.
Sonnet 4x4 M.2 Silent - Installing the card is brain dead easy, it’s plug and play.
https://www.sonnetstore.com/products/...
Bonus video:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/skirtin...
As a refresher, PCIe slots use pairs of wires for sending a receiving data. One pair is one lane. 4x PCIe slot has 4 sets of wires which means it has 4 lanes. More lanes equals more data, and this card can address 16x lanes, hence 4 SSDs.