eSATA Expresscard

[Rafael Amador]

I have the aCie and works great.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Walter Biscardi]

Does the drive manufacturer recommend a card? That’s where I always look first because if they do, that means they’ve probably tested it out with their product.

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Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Bob Pierce]

I recently bought a Sonnet from Other World Computing for $100. Drives were spontaneously unmounting, and after much discussion with tech support they admitted that the unit doesn’t get along with the Mac Book Pro. I exchanged it for the $140 EZ Quest, which so far is working great for me.
Good luck,
Bob

Mac Pro 2.66 – 8GB memory – Mac OS 10.5.2 – Quicktime 7.4.5 –
Mac Book Pro 2.33 Duo –
FC Studio 2 (Final Cut 6.0.3) – Kona Lhe
Adobe Production Suite CS3 –
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Ikegami HLDV7 – PVW EX-1

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Bob,
I bought two Sonnet FW-Express cards for my MBP, and no way to make them work.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Robert Buncher]

I have been using a Firmtek card with two Firmtek enclosures, a two bay and a five bay. It works just fine. How it might work with a different brand I can’t say.
Bob

MacbookPro 2.33 2gb os 10.4.11
FCP 5.1.4 After Effects Bootcamp XPpro

[Zane Barker]

I’ve done a LOT of research and looking myself, and have learned that ALL eSATA card that connect to a MBP use the same chipset and same driver.

Sure some manufacture bundle that driver inside there own installer, but after looking at the package contents of the drivers for over a half dozen cards, I found that they all used the same driver, and thus the same chipset in the eSATA card itself.

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[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Did your research identify any don’t/don’t/don’t ones?
(Work/use same chipset/same driver)?

[Josh Evans]

Hi THere,

thanks for all the replies.

I went with the APIOTEK EC-0003D

it cost me $400 Hong Kong and seems to work fine. There were a few glitches at first like FCP frezing and causing bad crashes, but now seems to work ok, not sure why.

Everything is definitely faster than before with Firewire 800. Ive noticed more things are in realtime in my timeline now, and rendering takes much less time, so eSATA definitely worth it. eSATA II must be even better, but out of my price range at the moment.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Bob Pierce] “I recently bought a Sonnet from Other World Computing for $100. Drives were spontaneously unmounting, and after much discussion with tech support they admitted that the unit doesn’t get along with the Mac Book Pro.”

Say wha? I use a Sonnet Express 34 with an F2 for all of my portable editing/live captures. It works swimmingly. Are you sure it was Sonnet tech support you were talking to?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Rafael Amador] “I bought two Sonnet FW-Express cards for my MBP, and no way to make them work. “

You have to be on Leopard for the fw cards.