eSata on a MacBook Pro

Hey All,

I have this eSata drive that I use on my desktop and I want to use it on my laptop. I found a few companies that offer a PCMCIA card and drivers for OS X. Does anyone have any experience with this type of thing? How does the card perform when using FCP and the eSata externally? Does it crash? Is the driver using rosetta and then sending info back and forth to the drive and laptop? Any info on this would be helpful.

Thanks!

MacBook Pros don't have PCMCIA slots...they have PCI Express 32 slots. And there are MANY people that make cards for those machines. CalDigit makes one, SIIG makes one I think, as does Sonnet.


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Express-34 slot SATA 3Gbps controller and an enclosure.

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The firmtek one on John Foley's site is the one you want. It was reviewed on the BareFeats website a number of months ago to much praise.

I use a SATA PCMCIA card on my older powerbook and I cannot live without it. Apple dropped the ball big time IMO by not including 2 port mutlitplying SATA ports on its newly refreshed MacBook Pros.