SSD Compatibility

[the-darkvoid]

Has anyone thoroughly tested the compatibility of Samsung Polaris controller PCIe NVMe SSD's with High Sierra?
These would be the 960 Evo, 960 Evo Pro and PM961 SSD's primarily.

The Samsung Polaris controller only supports 512-bytes, and could exhibit problems with APFS, slow boot, trackpad preferences etc.

So far I have tested the following SSD's successfully:

Product	SKU	Controller	Size	NVMe Format	Result
Sandisk A400		Marvell 88SS1093 [15b7:5001]	512GB	4K	OK on 10.13 with APFS
WD Black PCIe SSD	WDS512G1X0C-00ENX0	Marvell 88SS1093 [15b7:5001]	512GB	4K	OK on 10.13 with APFS
WD Black 3D NAND PCIe SSD (New 2018)	WDS100T2X0C-00L350	Western Digital in-house [15b7:5002]	1TB	4K	OK on 10.13.6 with APFS

 

[ryanejohnson]

Has anyone thoroughly tested the compatibility of Samsung Polaris controller PCIe NVMe SSD's with High Sierra?
These would be the 960 Evo, 960 Evo Pro and PM961 SSD's primarily.

The Samsung Polaris controller only supports 512-bytes, and could exhibit problems with APFS, slow boot, trackpad preferences etc.

So far I have tested the following SSD's successfully:

Product	SKU	Controller	Size	NVMe Format	Result
Sandisk A400		Marvell 88SS1093 [15b7:5001]	512GB	4K	OK on 10.13 with APFS
WD Black PCIe SSD	WDS512G1X0C-00ENX0	Marvell 88SS1093 [15b7:5001]	512GB	4K	OK on 10.13 with APFS

Hey, How'd you get the installer to recognize the WD Black PCIE? I'm doing a fresh build on a H370M D3H mobo with an i5-8600. I was able to do an initial format by installing windows and formatting that way, but that did nothing either...

 

[the-darkvoid]

Hey, How'd you get the installer to recognize the WD Black PCIE? I'm doing a fresh build on a H370M D3H mobo with an i5-8600. I was able to do an initial format by installing windows and formatting that way, but that did nothing either...

No issues with that. You need to ensure the bios is configured as AHCI and that your SSD is formatted as 4K.