eSata and playing the final cut pro timeline

[Rafael Amador]

I bet that a bit of maintenance to your system and HDs would make everything run faster.
Repair permissions and rebuild the directories (DiskWarrior, TechTools,..)
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Roli Rivelino]

When I bought my Mac, I put in an esata bus card so I could use my esata drive. After many months and many days being driven close to tears and madness, I gave up.

No one could explain why it didn’t work (using the esata triggered a kernel failure and made my machine crash) the machine went back to the shop 3 times to no avail, I decided to give up before I turned into a bitter, raving-I told you PCs were better-lunatic, I advise you do the same and just stick with FW800 it’s still fast and like you say it works.

Good luck with it all.

aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “The young Newbie, is now a Padawon.”

System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Rafael Amador]

[Roli Rivelino] ” I advise you do the same and just stick with FW800 it’s still fast and like you say it works.”
I say the opposite.
Go e-SATA.
Your bad luck, Roli, doesn’t justify that advise.
You won’t read many complains about e-SATA in this forum.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Shane Ross]

Could have been a bad eSATA card…or not a quality one. Not all are created equal. I have had zero issues with mine. Caldigit variety.

Shane

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Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def

[Roli Rivelino]

This is why I refer to my Mac as Schroedinger’s Mac, because sometimes when you turn it on it works properly and sometimes not. The guy who sold me the esata card said he’d sold loads all without complaint so rather than depress myself further I felt it best to turn my back on esata; shame.

aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “The young Newbie, is now a Padawon.”

System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Christian Calon]

yes, probably your drives need permissions repaired.
I just started using the Sonnet eSata Pro card with my MacBook Pro 2,5 GHz. Compared to FW800 it is over 5 times as fast. And not one glitch.

MacBook Pro 2,5GHz, 4GBram, eSata G-Raid nTB, dual 23″ monitors, FCS3, Modul8… Nuendo 4/ Live/Reaktor 5/Euphonix/JLCooper/Motu i/o/2 G4 PowerBooks/multichannel surround audio setup.