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Hello everybody! Hope someone can give me a hint! I recently came accross a couple of Fusion-io PCIe SSD cards. Price was unbeatable so I took them right away hoping that my Mac Pro 5,1 could do the rest.
Sadly, that's where the dream ended. I installed the cards and they were not recognized by disk utility. So I checked the system profiler and alas!
They show up in their respective PCIe lanes but with no driver installed! Thinking it was going to be an easy fix, I started looking for the respective drivers but that prooved to be quite a challenge since Fusion-io was acquired by SanDisk recently. Finally found some drivers for OS X 10.9 and 10.10 which evidently didn't work on Sierra.
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UPDATE I installed Mavericks on a second HDD. Then installed the drivers downloaded from SanDisk website. Volume shows up fine but since the drivers have to be loaded from the OS, the card may not be bootable.:-( Now I am upgrading Mavericks to Sierra to see if the drivers are passed to the new system and I can get the Fusion-io Drive to show under Sierra. UPDATE 2 No success on passing the drivers from Mavericks to Sierra.
Lost the Fusion-io when upgrading the OS. Tried disabling SIP (System Integrity Protection) and installing from root. No luck either.:-( - Anyone there with a solution to make these pretty cool SSDs work on a Mac Pro 5,1 with Sierra? The exact model of the PCIe cards I have is: Fusion-io ioScale 2 (825GB) F11-003-825G-CS-0001 Any help or comment is highly appreciated! Click to expand.Sad but true. I installed a PCIe adapter with a SSD drive to boot my Mac Pro with Sierra.
No drivers needed and it is actually quite fast at 6Gbps. I had my last HD bay free so I installed a small HD I had in the drawer with Mavericks just for the purpose of using the Fusion i/o from time to time. No luck mounting the volume on Sierra even less booting up an OS X from it. Still, opening my Aperture or iPhoto Library from the Fusion I/O under Mavericks proved to be a delightful experience with the most fluid navigation I have ever experienced.
I'm sure you can still find a way to get some out of these cards if you want. Sad but true. I installed a PCIe adapter with a SSD drive to boot my Mac Pro with Sierra. No drivers needed and it is actually quite fast at 6Gbps. I had my last HD bay free so I installed a small HD I had in the drawer with Mavericks just for the purpose of using the Fusion i/o from time to time.
No luck mounting the volume on Sierra even less booting up an OS X from it. Still, opening my Aperture or iPhoto Library from the Fusion I/O under Mavericks proved to be a delightful experience with the most fluid navigation I have ever experienced. I'm sure you can still find a way to get some out of these cards if you want. Click to expand.Fusion-io cards were never bootable by any operating system. Hope you didn't waste any time on that goal! I was a Sales Systems Engineer there for 4.5 years, I know a thing or two about the cards. They are still usable under Windows 10 (lucky, MS didn't break the drivers, the driver set is for like 2008/2012 and Win7 if I recall) and they the ESXi 6.0 drivers work on ESXi 6.5, that's where I use mine today.
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There's a hack to make the FreeBSD 9.x drivers work on FreeBSD 10. It's the end of the line for them.
It's a shame, they were great cards at the time and I was able to buy refurbs cheaply from my employer. I have lots of very fast ESXi VMs in my home lab. Click to expand.I figured that out myself after a few attempts! And thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! Is always great to learn from the experts! Still, my main goal was to drive my massive iPhoto Library.
I restore classic cars as a hobby and side business and take pictures of every detail of the restoration process and when you have almost 100k pictures on your library things start to get sluggish. Not with the Fusion I/O! I got a couple of these cards for around $150 each which is not horrible deal as I was able to achieve my main goal at least under Mavericks and they are 825GB which is a pretty decent size. Being an Apple Techie for over 30 years I have had the opportunity to acquire a large collection of Apple stuff so having these cards on my Mac Pro is like having my Applied Engineering cards on my old Apple //(s), they just are so damn cool that you must have them.
Fusion Io Octal Pcie X4 Express Ssd Card 1.6t For Mac Pro
What it is calling the fastest server-based solid-state drive on the market today, with double the slot capacity of its older. Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io claims the ioDrive Duo offers users unprecedented single server performance levels with 1.5GB/sec. Throughput and almost 200,000 IOPS. The system can reach such performance levels because four ioDrive Duos in a single server can scale linearly, which provides up to 6GB/sec.
Of read bandwidth and over 500,000 read IOPS. Currently, the cards come in 160GB, 320GB and 640GB capacities. A 1.28TB card is expected out in the second half of this year. Related: The ioDrive Duo 'Many database and system administrators are finding that SANs are too expensive and don't meet performance, protection and capacity utilization expectations,' said David Flynn, chief technology officer at Fusion-io. 'This is why more and more application vendors are moving toward application-centric solid-state storage.
The ioDrive Duo offers the enterprise the advantages of application-centric storage without application-specific programming.' The ioDrive Duo is based on PCI Express x8 or PCI Express 2.0 x4 standards, which can sustain up to 20Gbit/sec. Raw throughput. The drive's sustained read rate is 1,500MB/sec. (using a 32KB packet size) and a sustained write rate of 1,400MB/sec. The ioDrive Duo offers reliability with triple redundancy of parts for a single storage component; multibit error detection and correction; chip-level N+1 redundancy; and on-board self-healing so that no servicing is required, the company said. The drives also offer optional RAID -1 mirroring two ioMemory modules on the same ioDrive Duo, offering complete redundancy on a single PCIe card.
The ioDrive Duo will be available in April 2009. The company said that pricing for the new drives will be announced later. The current offerings are priced at 'well under $30 per usable GB,' it noted.