Apple Reveals macOS 10.14 Mojave at WWDC - Available Fall 2018

[Gigamaxx]

I have a 40 lanes CPU, right now I'm only using three 4x pci-e adapters and one of the 970 is on the motherboard, my board support 4x m.2, it only has one slot for m.2 drive but that's enough to run the 4 drives setup, I had two 16x cards from amfeltec but I returned them, is really along story but I do not recommend that company at all, I just had a horrible experience dealing with them, I had 8 Samsung 960 EVO running 4 on each card and went all the way up to 18,000 but the Evo's drop speed very fast even if you use a single EVO, so it wasn't a raid problem, EVO's are just build like that, that's why I decided to go back to the PRO's and I changed my board for one that has at least one onboard 4X M.2 slot, my previous board has only one but at 2X that's why I was forced to buy an expensive card just to have the four drives, but now my system is back on business the way I like it, anyway thanks, just waiting for Mojave, just love the new dark theme and the features.

yes I have a Phantom 4 Pro drone and I do videos in 4K so I do editing and rendering AKA encoding

Here’s a fan cooled NVME PCIE card from MSI.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12987/msi-four-way-m2-pcie-card-it-looks-like-a-gpu

 

[Superbogey]

It does not. But I clicked on the link on the first post for beta then I clicked lets get started. Loged in got a utility macOSPblicBetaAccessUtility.

Must be only PAID dev accounts as I logged in and checked and have no macOSPblicBetaAccessUtility showing.

 

[scottkendall]

Must be only PAID dev accounts as I logged in and checked and have no macOSPblicBetaAccessUtility showing.

I do not have a paid developer account.

Maybe there was a bug in the system because as of today I can not do the same download as I could yesterday instead there is a button that says coming soon.

 

[CameronBurton]

Would be nice is dark mode could gradually come on as the wallpapers shifts to night mode. Just a though

 

[Gogeta-Blue]

Here’s a fan cooled NVME PCIE card from MSI.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12987/msi-four-way-m2-pcie-card-it-looks-like-a-gpu

thanks Gigamax for the info, I did had two 16x m.2 carriers card from amfeltec, very expensive cards, there are many cards out there like HP turbo, dell etc but the problem is compatibility, some of them can only be use on windows some other are bios lock to the board manufacturer, is good to have a card that be use for both Mac and Windows another important thing is that some of those cards are not bootable on Windows, so we need a card that is compatible with Mac and Windows but that is also bootable with both systems, the amfeltek is able to do that but the card is ugly green PCB instead of brown PCB. the card will look much better in brown PCB color, also the price is ridiculously high not to mention it is terrible company

have you ever heard of being charge 30% re-stocking fee for returning a defective item that arrived with deep scratches all over the place, they sold me an used returned card like it was new, then they wanted to charged me for returning the card, at first I wanted a replacement but they say that I have to pay to send it back, they sent me and used card, now I have to pay to send it back for a replacement, incredible, so I asked for a refund instead, then they wanted 30% on top of me having pay to send the card back, I summited a complaint to PayPal and thanks to PayPal I have a full refund, very bad company,

I like the cards from high point = HPTMAC I had a rocket raid card 4520 for about 2 years with 8 ssd in raid0 and it was Mac compatible but then I moved on the M.2 and and NVME but as far as I know the M.2 cards from High Point are only windows and linux compatible, there is no way to know if they are Mac compatible or if there is a way to make them work on Mac OS
but for now I'm more than happy with 3 pci-e cards and one of the 970 PRO drives on the motherboard. I get the same performance and I saved money because I'm not forced to buy one of those expensive cards unless I want more than 4 drives. 4 PROS for now are more than enough. yes 8 are better but is also a lot more money, because not only I will have to buy 4 more drives but also two 16x m.2 cards. I already had that setup with eight 960 EVOS but those EVOS are terrible, they will throttle down after you write like 15 to 20 GIGS, that's why I went back to the PROS. cheers

 

[pastrychef]

thanks Gigamax for the info, I did had two 16x m.2 carriers card from amfeltec, very expensive cards, there are many cards out there like HP turbo, dell etc but the problem is compatibility, some of them can only be use on windows some other are bios lock to the board manufacturer, is good to have a card that be use for both Mac and Windows another important thing is that some of those cards are not bootable on Windows, so we need a card that is compatible with Mac and Windows but that is also bootable with both systems, the amfeltek is able to do that but the card is ugly green PCB instead of brown PCB. the card will look much better in brown PCB color, also the price is ridiculously high not to mention it is terrible company

have you ever heard of being charge 30% re-stocking fee for returning a defective item that arrived with deep scratches all over the place, they sold me an used returned card like it was new, then they wanted to charged me for returning the card, at first I wanted a replacement but they say that I have to pay to send it back, they sent me and used card, now I have to pay to send it back for a replacement, incredible, so I asked for a refund instead, then they wanted 30% on top of me having pay to send the card back, I summited a complaint to PayPal and thanks to PayPal I have a full refund, very bad company,

I like the cards from high point = HPTMAC I had a rocket raid card 4520 for about 2 years with 8 ssd in raid0 and it was Mac compatible but then I moved on the M.2 and and NVME but as far as I know the M.2 cards from High Point are only windows and linux compatible, there is no way to know if they are Mac compatible or if there is a way to make them work on Mac OS
but for now I'm more than happy with 3 pci-e cards and one of the 970 PRO drives on the motherboard. I get the same performance and I saved money because I'm not forced to buy one of those expensive cards unless I want more than 4 drives. 4 PROS for now are more than enough. yes 8 are better but is also a lot more money, because not only I will have to buy 4 more drives but also two 16x m.2 cards. I already had that setup with eight 960 EVOS but those EVOS are terrible, they will throttle down after you write like 15 to 20 GIGS, that's why I went back to the PROS. cheers

Are you using the macOS RAID to boot your NVMe array?

 

[Gogeta-Blue]

I think the Public beta is ready since I do not have a developers account!

no PB is not out yet but it will be out soon, DB are always one version ahead, right now DB2 is out, so PB1 will be out soon but the rules prohibits talking about DB, so as soon PB1 is out then we can talk about it

 

[Gogeta-Blue]

Are you using the macOS RAID to boot your NVMe array?

yes but I'm using Mac OS journaled FS not APFS. I don't know if apple will ever add APFS support for RAID. a mean i can create a RAID0 array with APFS but is not bootable, that was the last time I tried when High Sierra first came out, but I don't if it might work now because apple added support for fusion drives and mechanical drives, the reason why I think it didn't work before is because APFS create that preboot volume and I think that volume is not created when I create a RAID0 or if the volume is created but certain files are not being written to that location because is in RAID0 I don't remember which one but is one of those 2, so that's probably the reason why RAID0 is not bootable with APFS, i will only give another try when the official version of Mojave is out, it will be awesome to have Mojave in APFS in RAID0

there is also a 3rd party app called sofraid but is a comercial app, some people use it, but I create the raid using disk utility and is bootable on Mac OS High Sierra

 

[trs96]

The 2017 iMac Pro uses NVME SSDs in a raid configuration. The file system is APFS. Their raid array is controlled by the custom T2 chip so that is probably why it's difficult to RAID0 two NVME drives when using APFS on a CustoMac.

The teardown also reveals that in the iMac Pro 1TB base model, Apple has chosen to use two 512GB SSDs in a RAID configuration.

From: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/28/owc-imac-pro-teardown-2017/

 

[Gogeta-Blue]

The 2017 iMac Pro uses NVME SSDs in a raid configuration. The file system is APFS. Their raid array is controlled by the custom T2 chip so that is probably why it's difficult to RAID0 two NVME drives when using APFS on a CustoMac.

From: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/28/owc-imac-pro-teardown-2017/

yesterday I find out that I can use iMac Pro smbios with my build, I am waiting for Mojave to then create a new iMac Pro smbios for my system. so I can keep that one from there on, that info is a great contribution, that's why sharing knowledge and resources is always good. I knew about the T2 chip because saw it on a picture but I didn't know the function because I didn't look for it. when I have some spare time I will give it a another try.

I will clone a single drive then erase my Mac OS journaled raid , create a new APFS raid0 array and copy the single drive back to the raid to see if that does the trick, if it fails miserably then I will try installing Mac OS directly to the raid array,
I remember a message about can't install Mac on this drive because is part of apple raid
but I think that message was only when the raid was on Mac OS journaled HFS+

if that is the case about the T2 chip then there is no way to run raid with APFS on a hackintosh because the missing T2 chip
thanks for the info trs96