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Macbook Pro Retina owners or soon to be owners beware of firewire!!
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[Paul Jay] “All your drives have e-sata. Get a lacie sata thunderbolt hub and you will have 2 drives running SATA speeds for fast editing.
“LOL. There are a LOT of earlier model G-RAIDS that are Firewire only. I don’t think they started adding eSATA until just a couple of years ago, around 2009 or 2010. I’ve got a half-dozen of those. I am using that LaCie TBolt hub, though. It works pretty well.
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On the test I ran, it was the exact same os version, 10.7.4. I will have to dual boot 10.8 when I get it and see if it helps.
Brooks Tomlinson
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not sure – the Retina Display mbp has the latest Lion on it – the other older computer had snow leopard ..can’t imagine the OS would affect the firewire/thunderbolt connection — although the more programs i quit on the OLD macbook – the faster the drive worked in the test on that older machine
Testing on the Retina display with nothing else running (by the way i ran the test on the SSD on the new Retina internal drive too) that is CRAZY fast – pinned the needle in write and read — i think something like 485 mbs….
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
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Paul, confirmation question.
I currently run a 4TB CalDigit VR2 drive which I connect to my 17″ MBP via the ExpressCard/34 slot. If I upgrade to the 15″ Retina, from what I understand I should then purchase a LaCie eSATA Hub which then becomes my gateway between my MPBr and CalDigit drive.
Currently having this drive running through my ExpressCard/34 slot, I seem to only be reaching read speeds of approximately 100-120MB/s, & write speeds of about 80-90MB/s.
I’m curious to know if I run this drive through the LaCie eSATA Hub, and connect it to my 17″ MBP via Thunderbolt, would I be more likely to reach read/write speeds closer to it’s max which are 250MB/s?
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I’m getting 68 mbps write and 86 mbps read with OWC 1Terabyte FW800 HD to TB adapter on maxed out retina MBP.
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On a somewhat related note, is your Caldigit Mini VR working via bus power (via the TB>FW adapter) on the Retina MBP? I’ve read conflicting reviews as to which drives are working via bus power and which arent…
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This is an old thread but I wish to bring a little update for any future readers.
My thunderbolt-to-firewire adapter was also producing bad results: 40-50MB/sec read and write. However, almost immediately afterwards my rMBP began having thunderbolt disconnect issues with all my devices. I’ve talked about this in a few other threads, but the bottom line is that my rMBP had some hardware faults in it. I use a thunderbolt RAID, and in the frustration almost forgot entirely about the bad FW speeds.
Apple swapped me a new model today due to the thunderbolt power issues, and same drive with same thunderbolt-to-FW adapter is now producing 80-90MB/sec speeds — which is exactly the same as traditional FW. I can’t say for certain that this is only due to a faulty port, as my old rMBP had OSX 10.7.4 and this replaced model has 10.8.2 … but if it isn’t the OS it most certainly was the faulty hardware.
Moral of the story: if your FW drive is acting up …you may have a similar thunderbolt power issue that afflicted my rMBP and it needs to get checked.
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