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MP 7,1 Separate SSD slots for work / personal?

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kelvin.lau

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I proposed at my workplace to provide me a work SSD for me to use with my personal Mac Pro. Is this technically feasible? I'm thinking of buying the 2023 Mac Pro for this. Two Qs:

1. Does the Mac Pro have multiple SSD slots for me to have both a personal and work SSD slotted inside?

2. Will the Mac Pro know there's two SSDs that it can boot from and allow me to select on power up?

Thanks!
 
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kelvin.lau said:
I proposed at my workplace to provide me a work SSD for me to use with my personal Mac Pro. Is this technically feasible? I'm thinking of buying the 2023 Mac Pro for this. Two Qs:

1. Does the Mac Pro have multiple SSD slots for me to have both a personal and work SSD slotted inside?

2. Will the Mac Pro know there's two SSDs that it can boot from and allow me to select on power up?

Thanks!
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It seems to have the same proprietary slots as the 7,1. So it really is not a traditional SSD. The controller is on the motherboard and the storage sticks are just memory that are RAID in a proprietary way.

So that means you either just partition the single storage space for personal/work.

Or, you get a 3rd party drive solution in one of the slots.
 
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kelvin.lau

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I don't think partition will work. Legally speaking they want to own the hardware that contains all the company data. Mixing personal and work in 1 SSD will probably not fly.

Seems like I can buy some sort of PCIe 4 SSD expansion module. Do you know if the Mac Pro will recognize two separate boot drives and allow me to click into it on startup?
 
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kelvin.lau said:
I don't think partition will work. Legally speaking they want to own the hardware that contains all the company data. Mixing personal and work in 1 SSD will probably not fly.

Seems like I can buy some sort of PCIe 4 SSD expansion module. Do you know if the Mac Pro will recognize two separate boot drives and allow me to click into it on startup?
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I don't see any reason why it wouldnt. All current other Macs let you boot from an external source.
 
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