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Looking for Good Esata Card for MacPro1, 1Posted by apmende
I have a pair of 2TB Lacie drives that have full rez HD video on them. I want to get a faster throughput when editing so I would like to use the esata connection. What is a good brand to buy and also where is a good place to buy the card? Apple is a little expensive so I wouldn't mind buying from another retailer.
My Macpro is a little older so I am including the system information here as well. Model Name: Mac Pro Model Identifier: MacPro1,1 Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor Speed: 3 GHz Number Of Processors: 2 Total Number Of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB thank you, apmende
Is the LaCie 2 port eSATA PCI Card good?
I attached a link of the product ... I hope that's OK? Lacie Esata Card
I have the same Mac Pro as you do and a two drive eSATA external case that is not a raid. I bought this raid card: (MAXPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 RAID Capable Controller Card)
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/MXPCIE6GRS/ It works very well for me. I also have the Caldigit VR.
I would also like to add an esata port however I'm trying to understand transfer rate vs. hardware bottleneck. I know esata (v2) is rated at 3 GB/s but if it's put into a pci slot isn't only 133 mb/s? Would the transfer rate be better if you used a bracket that could plug directly into the sata port on the motherboard?
Thanks
Yes, your Mac Pro 1,1 has PCIe slots. If your Lacie PCI card is standard PCI, I don't beleive it will work. If it did you would be defeating the purpose of setting up a raid. A standard PCI card is something like half the speed of a PCIe card. Then to add on top of that, the Mac Pro 1,1 PCI e slots are half the speed of the newer Mac Pros. You would be better off using a eSATA Extender Cable.
I tried the LaCie SATA II PCI Express card on my MacPro 1.1 and it worked poorly, especially with drives plugged into both of its ports. (It looks like generic junk, not even branded by LaCie.) I replaced it with the Sonnet Tempo SATA E2P PCI Express card, which has been trouble-free. Yes this LaCie and this Tempo are based on the same chip, but they're not the same.
Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germany
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