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  • Best eSata Express Card for Macbook Pro?

    Posted by Kyler Boudreau on December 30, 2011 at 2:24 am

    Hey forum – I just purchased the latest 17″ MBP because I wanted eSata capabilities (haven’t made the move to thunderbolt storage).

    Does anyone know of a decent Express34 card? I’m looking at OWC and the Sonnet models. Of course the most expensive Sonnet model sounds good, but it’s like $200 which is kind of pricey.

    Anyway….I’m running Lion along with Avid and FCP7. Thanks!

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    Marty Smith replied 14 years, 1 month ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  • David Roth weiss

    December 30, 2011 at 5:32 pm

    I’m not sure where you saw the $200 Sonnet card, but I can tell you that the $80 card at the link below is all you need. It’s the latest, adding two 6Gb/s eSATA ports.

    https://store1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?products_id=387

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  • Jason Jenkins

    January 1, 2012 at 6:24 am

    I bought the $200 adapter earlier this year; https://secure1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?cPath=127_129&products_id=264&osCsid=eebf928cb7bc1ad814282d4f8da2eb76

    If it’s more expensive it must be faster, right!? 🙂

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  • Steve Knattress

    January 3, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    I use this cheaper sonnet card on a 17″mbp and it works fine ( you need the latest drivers from the sonnet site for Lion).

    However I am not convinced that he actual speed is much different to connecting my AVIO Raid5 directly by Firewire ( with no other FW devices on bus) may be an express34 thing?

    Steve

  • Marty Smith

    March 11, 2012 at 12:46 pm

    Guys,

    I have just purchased the Sonnet Tempo SATA 6GB dual expresscard and I am having significant issues.

    I would like to use it as an interface to upload from a Sound Devices PIX240 caddy in order to backup data from the SSD to a FW800 drive.

    I can get the expresscard to be “seen”, but cannot get it to mount the SSD drive. The “SATA Controller” menu item in the menu bar is grey and I am unable to access anything about the card.

    I believe I have updated the appropriate drivers – although I understand that 10.7.3 should no longer require drivers.

    Is it possible that it is this USB “chipset” thing I have read about

    Any assistance gratefully received.

    Marty

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