pastrychef
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Hey Pastry did you ever get 10gig networking on your hackintosh?
[you probably dont remember me but your high sierra 8700k guide was the basis for choosing all the parts for my build and its been working really well for 1.5 years now so thanks again]
My hackintosh is my main workstation for running ableton & I use an upgraded mac pro 1,1 as a local fileshare server.
since the mac pro has 2x gigabit, I figured I should upgrade the hackintosh to 10gig first but also wanted to ask:
- do you have a 10gig pcie card that you would recommend for a 1,1 mac pro as well?
- if both ends + the router/switch are upgraded to 10gig, would that be fast enough to edit footage or load massive 6GB sampler patches over the network? [any youtube videos to suggest in that department?]
Yes, I've been using 10GBase-T for quite a while now. I'm currently using a Syba AQC107 based card and it works OOB with built-in macOS drivers.
On the MacPro1,1 side, I don't know... I've seen some reports on MacRumors.com from old Mac Pro users who have had problems getting full 10Gb speeds. I don't know if it's a limitation of PCI-e 2.0 or a lanes issue. Recently, one guy went through the Syba card and then switched to Sonnet card and got even worse results. In the end, I don't think he ever got it resolved...
Personally, I have a DIY NAS with an Intel X540-T2 card in it that has been working great.
Assuming, you can get 10GBase-T working on both ends, I don't know if it would be sufficient for your needs. On my particular setup I see approx 800+MB/s sequential reads and 300MB/s sequential writes on an 8 drive array with dual disk redundancy. My write speeds are severely limited by my use of extremely cheap and notoriously slow drives.
Performance can be greatly improved if I added an SSD or two for cache. I'm certain that would fully saturate the 10Gb connection.