• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  USB3 vs eSata via ExpressCard

  Posted by Werner Kruse on September 5, 2012 at 7:42 am

  Hello All

  I am working on a low budget docie which means no money for edit drives.

  We have 4x 3TB WD internal drives and looking at buying a Netstor 5Bay RAID enclosure with USB3, eSata and FW800 connections. Drive will be setup to RAID 5

  I want to get a ExpressCard for my Macbook Pro 17′ (2011 model 8,3)

  What is the best connection option…USB3 or eSata?

  Will be using ProRes 422 media mostly.

  I hear different things about USB3….
  – Cant daisy chain with USB3
  – Sonnets card burned out the hardrives connected
  – Lacie cards only support Lacie drives
  – Speed not really as fast or faster than eSata. Throughput of USB 3 is low.

  Anyone have any experience with USB3 or eSata cards?
  Any thoughts on the Netstor 5Bay USB3/eSata/FW800?

  Appreciate your advice!!

  Ryan Holmes replied 13 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Ryan Holmes

  September 5, 2012 at 1:34 pm

  I’d go with eSata or FW800 for editing. Both of those protocols move video information (steam stream of data) more efficiently than USB (data bursts).

  Ryan Holmes
  http://www.ryanholmes.me
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