This is what they’re for, right? Apparently not. Seemed to me that any old Thunderbolt 1/2 to Thunderbolt 3 adapter should work. All I needed was a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 1/2 adapter for NVMe rapture, right? Hah! After updating to High Sierra, Murphy’s law caught up with me big time. Just lying around were an Akitio Thunder3 PCIe enclosure, as well as several PCIe NVMe drives left over from reviews. The thing for me is, covering storage for PCWorld has its perks. If you’ve used a MacBook Pro from the last couple of years, you’ll understand: Apps pop open, files load and save in an instant, and boot times are ridiculous. In case you aren’t aware, NVMe is fast-two to six times the sustained throughput of SATA (depending on the drive), with, at times, one-tenth the seek latency. Boot Camp, Logic Pro X…great stuff, but if I could just add NVMe and run macOS from it.
My iMac (old as it is) replaced a Windows PC with an NVMe SSD, and though the iMac is a far superior experience overall, I missed the speed of the NVMe SSD running the operating system.
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I was perfectly happy with my 2011 27-inch Core i7 iMac and its SATA SSD upgrade when I heard that the company had finally started supporting third-party NVMe as of macOS High Sierra.
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