
Another option is the use of a PCIe SSD card in one of the slots which can typicially support either 1 or 2 2.5' SATA SSD drives, or more recent ones that support M. One is to use a readily available drive tray/adapter to convert an off the shelf SATA SSD to 3.5' drive bay.
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I've noticed that if you do a reboot you have to wait few seconds until the GPU is recognized. The Aluminum Mac Pro Towers offer two solid-state drive upgrade options.



Make sure you disassemble all the electroinc parts out of the box before hammering it to its new shape. The GPU card is too big for the box so I had to give up on the box cover and cut out and fold the front of the box. Akitio Thunder2 PCIe Box it comes with a thunderbolt cable.Connect bandwidth-heavy peripherals to one front USB (10 Gbps) port and two rear USB-C (10Gbps) ports. The card is placed in PCIe box that is connected to the laptop with a thunderbolt 2 cable which gives a throughput of 10Gb/s (latter MBP supports 16Gb/s but the PCIe box is in any case limited to the lower rate.) The GPU also requires an external 500W power supply. When connected to Thunderbolt 3 Windows or Mac systems: Drive up to two 4096x2160 60Hz displays via DisplayPort or HDMI. I have a working setup made from MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) connected to an external GPU card – GTX 980.
