We've confirmed that standard SATA 6Gb/s PCI Express Card adapters using the ASMedia ASM1061 (Asmedia 1061 SATA Host Controller) are working natively in OS X (10.6.8 and 10.7). So if your motherboard only has SATA 3Gb/s ports, you can now expand your system with faster 6Gb/s internal ports! Special thanks to notshy for the testing and info!
This year marked the first widespread distribution of SATA 6Gb/s. In fact, most 2011 H67/P67/Z68 motherboards are packing SATA 6Gb/s ports by default alongside the industry prevalent SATA 3Gb/s ports. This allows for double the data transfer speeds.
Syba 2 Port SATA 6Gb/s PCI-Express x1 Card
OCZ Vertex 3 SATA 6Gb/s MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Corsair Force Series 3 SATA 6Gb/s Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA 6Gb/s Internal Hard Drive
1 TB Amazon Newegg
2 TB Amazon Newegg
3 TB Amazon Newegg
2 TB Amazon Newegg
3 TB Amazon Newegg
Please note due to a bootloader issue, drives larger than 1 TB cannot be used as a OS X system drive. Let us know in the comments how SATA 6Gb/s is working for you! Good luck!
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27 comments:
Unfortunately, I have yet to see how SATA 6Gb/s works on my Sandy Bridge CustoMac #4 build. The OC Z Vertex 3 is a very flaky drive - mine was only recognized by the BIOS once, and after that it wouldn't show up at all, even after a lot of troubleshooting. I had to RMA it with OC Z and am still awaiting a replacement.
This is actually pretty common, and there are tons of the same and similar problems in the OC Z support forum:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?254-Vertex3-Agility3-Solid3-support-and-discussion-forum&s=1a95c987c07ccd491c5c6f4e86cb4d67
Anyway, I'm sure it's a great drive when it works, but be aware that it may be a source of headaches until then.
can work on Striped Raid right ? Now I create striped raid with WD Black 1TB SATA3 6Gb/s X 3 disk
Ehh didn't chameleon team from voodoo fixed the TB hard disk bug in chameleon RC3 ?? http://chameleon.osx86.hu/articles/chameleon-20-rc3-with-snow-leopard-and-large-disk-support
I have not had any problems running Lion with SATA 6Gb/s on my GA-P67-UD7-B3
Bench Score:
http://thessdreview.com/Forums/raid-overclocking/444-4.htm#post8200
Please let it be known that to run 6Gb/s the drive must be revision III :)
@jack :
this only was for 512 byte sector drives.
The issue here is about 4k physical sectoring.
(usually found on 2TB)
Bootloader issue for larger then 1tb drives?
Whats the issue I'm using a 2TB sata 3/6gbs drive for Lion with Chimera installed on the EFI.
The only thing i can think of is if i run disk utility it says theres a problem with my efi and it needs to be repaired. If u repair it then it breaks the boot loader so i just leave it.
Could you search another SATA Pci express card?
That one is difficult to find it in europe.
@Pedro
Any PCIe SATA 6Gb/s PCI Express Card adapters using the ASMedia ASM1061 (Asmedia 1061 SATA Host Controller) should work. It doesn't necessarily have to be the one listed.
Unfortunately I have Marvell drivers [GA-P55a-UD3] for my SATA 6Gb/s [GSATA]ports that are not supposed to work. Several folks have told me they don't work for Win 7 either. Guess I'll need a PCI express card. GLAD this article tells me which one works with OSX.
There are ASMedia PCI-e 1x cards available from Hong Kong sellers on eBay which offer 2 x iSATA III or 2 x eSATA III or any combination of iSATA III and eSATA III.
About US$17, with "free" shipping included.
Just search on ASM1061.
This ...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160584220403
... is one such card.
There are others.
hi all
can anyone tell me, is this board ok for this cards?
i think, there are no slots free, but i don't know
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2951&dl=
thx and greetings from vienna
Franky
ps: sorry for my bad english
SATA cards with the Marvel chipset work OOB in OSX. I've been using this card, with no problems. Windows 7, Lion, Ubuntu can boot off it.
High Point Rocket 620
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115072
Also note:
PCIe(2.0)1x tops out at 5 Gb/s.
If it is a first generation slot (older mobos), it tops out at 2.5 Gb/s.
That is all you will get.
One big question...does the card support trim?
My ASUS P55-E-pro has a 6GB port. Why can't I use that?
Successfully installed on GA-X58-UD5. Just what my new Force GT needed. Thanks from Sweden!
I have a 1.5TB hard drive, ive got it partitioned to 1TB Mac and 500GB windows. It works, unless you mean an OS partition can only be 1TB,
Any idea if the ASM1061 works with 10.6.7? I have a machine with a GMA 950 that I can't seem to move up to 10.6.8.
I've been using Lion for a month now & suddenly it won't boot from my SATA 6 port,some UUID error, it boots fine when i use SATA 3 port but not SATA 6,i have no idea what happened!
I'm using AHCI in the Bios.
Sabertooth X58 Motherboard
Corei7 950 3.08 GHz CPU
6GB Ram
I tried 2 different cards on my GA-X58A-UD3r with my OCZ agility 3 SSD. Both "worked" after resetting the Boot order in the BIOS but xbench shows significantly worse performance than through my on board SATA II. 398 down to 329 with every score consistently lower. I ran it to see how much faster it would be. Any ideas as to what would cause performance to worsen?
GA-X58A-UD3R rev 1
i7 930
6GB ram
Anyone know if this Seagate will work on the new Sandybridge gigabyte boards (H67M-D2-B3): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IZN3YI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
I have been using an ASUS U3S6 sata III and usb 3.0 card for a while now with no problems. I have not done any speed tests but it is noticeably faster now with my crucial m4 256gb ssd than on sata II. I have installed enablers for usb 3.0, sata III, and trim and I have no idea if trim is working. Does anyone know? I have not noticed any loss in performance anyway so maybe it is ok.
MSI Pro-E x58, 24gb, I7 920 oc'ed to 3.6ghz
10.6.8
Any know if the PCIe slot needs to conform to the 2.0 spec in order to achieve sata III speeds? I only have 1 pcie 2.0 slot and its being used for a video card but would like the ability to get to sata III.
If I were to add one of these cards to my system, would I have to choose between the on-board SATA ports and the add-on? Or would I be allowed to mix the on-board ports with the add-on ports? The help is much appreciated.
I bought the asm1061 card along with the samsung 830 256gb ssd and it DOES NOT detect the SSD, I can put the ssd into a sata II port and it detects, inversely I can put a regular 7200rpm drive into the sata 3 card it it will detect it.. what the hell is going on here? does anyone else have this problem?
I bought the card in this post and put an OCZ vertex 3 240 GB SSD on it. Ok got it to boot, however, now whenever I "Double click" a file, say an .MP4 and the default program launches, quicktime player, and brings up the program, the movie to the screen, the quicktime movie controls over the movie window, then a second later, beachball appears and starts spinning for about a minute. But wait, there's more I can do the same thing with Text Edit and a PLIST file - same effect. I do not get this problem with non apple software - any ideas? I like using quicktime player for my mp4's, but don't like the beach ball effect of "hurry up and wait".
Everyone is correct- the bracket on this card is not quite right- it does not seat the card properly so you should remove the bracket or loosen the screws and tweak its position a little.
Also on my Gigabyte Z68 Motherboard a heat sink blocks one of the two SATA connections so I can only physically connect 1 of the 2 drives.
The card itself did work in Windows, OSX SL 10.6.8 and OSX Lion 10.7.3 with a magnetic disk or SSD on two different hackintoshes. No need to install drivers (Windows update found them on-line and mac was plug and play). Comments over at New-Egg indicate that this is a 1 lane card so its overall speed may not be as fast as people expect.
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