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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by slantyyz on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:07AM (#22170038)
According to a Linus Tech Tips video[1] that I saw a a couple of days ago, you can use PCI nvme drives on the new Mac Pro, but it won't even boot unless one of the proprietary Apple SSDs is connected (because of the T2).

[1] https://youtu.be/mIB389tqzCI?t=180

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by morid1n on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:03PM (#22173492)
You should be able to turn off the T2 function Secure Boot which blocks booting from other drives: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208330
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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by slantyyz on Thursday January 30, 2020 @09:11AM (#22191359)
According to this newer Linus Video [1], one of the T2 SSD slots still needs to be populated with an Apple drive to boot from other drives.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcLbSCinX3U

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by derefr on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @12:00PM (#22171267)
Which makes sense: it needs to load firmware/EFI from somewhere; and in a setup where you expect your own SSD to be a fixed resource in the system, there's little reason to have separate BIOS flash.
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