eSATA PCI Cards

[Michael Sacci]

SATA is a ton faster than FW800, and the drives can be raided together to give you even faster speed. This becomes very important if you are doing multi-cam editing. Getting and enclosure also gives you huge storage space, easy to build a 10TB Raid these days.

But SATA cards are about long in the tooth. SAS cards are more in style. They are more expensive and the enclosures are too but they give more speed and redundancy (RAID 5 as an example).

But I do have a SOnnet E4p card that I can sell, would make you a great deal if this is what you want. COntact me off list at onthecow (at) michaelangelodv (dot) com.

[Brandon Smits]

Kyle,

I assume you mean a Mac Pro, but to be clear, iMacs do not have pci slots. Do your drives have eSATA outputs?

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[Kyle Macdonnell]

Hey Michael,

Thanks for answering my questions. I might be interested in buying your SOnnet E4p card, but first I need to buy a new MacPro.

But my question concerns the 2 external drives I already own, they are already in enclosures. Right now they are connected using the FW 800 ports, but they also have eSATA; Is it worth the $ for me to buy a pci eSATA card for my existing buffalo 1.5 TB drives, or should I just stick with the FW?
Thanks

[Kyle Macdonnell]

I am referring to Mac Pros that accept PCI cards & yes, the drives in question have eSATA connections…

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Kyle,

You will definitely see a performance boast with eSata over FW 800. But depending on how Buffalo configured the drives, will determine how much of a boast.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
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