UPGRADE for Mac Pro 5,1 / 4TB SonnetTech M.2 SSD / Preloaded OpenCore Monterey2 Brand New Samsung 990 EVO Plus M.2 SSDs InstalledThis SonnetTech PCI Card will allow your Mac Pro 5,1 to Boot up to macOS Monterey 12 with a preloaded FAST M.2 2TB SSD boot drive using OpenCoreLegacy Patcher 2.4.1 –Plus have a second 2TB storage drive
This is a preloaded boot drive created for a Mac Pro 5,1 that runs Monterey using OpenCore - Simply plug this in a 4x PCIe slot, boot up and your ready to go.+Sonnet M.2 2x4 Low-profile PCIe Card with Two M.2 NVMe SSD slots
+Two M.2 NVMe SSD slots on a Low-profile PCIe Card with 2x Samsung 2TB SSDs
Super High-speed Data Transfers – If you need to add internal storage to your computer and ultra-high-speed data transfers are critical to your work, you need NVMe SSD storage. While a single M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD offers tremendous performance — 10x more than that of a spinning drive — Sonnet’s M.2 2x4 Low-profile PCIe Card enables you to mount two of them into a single x8 card slot and combine their performance. No matter how you use it, this card can transform the way you work or play.
+RAID 0 Performance / If you choose to convert this to a 4TB RAID volume
+Install the M.2 2x4 Low-profile PCIe Card with your SSDs into your computer with PCIe 3.0 or 4.0 card slots, and configure them as a RAID 0 set to obtain data transfers up to 6600 MB/s.
+Or as this one is set up – create 2x 2TB independent Volumes that can be used as a boot drive and a storage drive.+A SonnetTech PCIe Card with 2x M.2 NVMe Samsung 990 EVO Plus2TB SSDs+macOS Monterey 12 is installed with OpenCore Legacy Patcher pre set up for a Mac Pro Tower 5,1
ThIs Boot drive is setup based on a Mac Pro 5,1 regardless of the year release – It is preferable to have the following:
+Previously installed Mohave with the latest 5,1 firmware installed – 144.0.0.0.0
+A Metal compatible GPU Mac flashed or Mac Edition 7950, 7970 and RX 580 – these are the most versitle GPUs for going beyond macOS 12 Montery with OpenCore
+Wifi AC / Bluetooth 4 Combo Card for more functionality with Bluetooth devices
If you still have the original legacy Bluetooth module and Wifi N card installed, OpenCore will recognize this and want to install theWifi Legacy Patch. If this is the case we will provide instructions on how to do this.
We do have thetheWifi AC / Bluetooth 4 Combo Cardupgrades for sale if you feel you need to do this before using this Boot drive. Wehighly recommend thisupgrade for increased BT functionality and Wifi speed.
Other higher end GPUs that are Mac Flashed will work like theRX 6600 XTor5700 XTwhich are considered the fastest GPUs compatible with a Mac Pro 5,1 with no power modifications.
Depending on the GPU you have installed we can customize this SSD drive to run your Mac Pro 5,1 on Sonoma 14 or Sequoia 15. _gsrx_vers_1736 (GS 9.9.5 (1736))
