Paging Bob ‘SATA’ Zelin…

[Bob Zelin]

How’s it hangin ? It’s getting smaller every day if you must know !

As for the SATA adaptor for your MAC PowerBook, what you want is the
SeriTek/1VE2+2 from Firmtek. This has 2 ports on it, and will allow you to hook up to 2 SATA drives. I use Firmtek enclosures, and the 2 bay they have is cheap, and reliable. 2 SATA drives stripped at RAID 0 can easily do
8 or 10 bit SDI, and DVCPro HD (and of course DV). 2 drives CANNOT DO uncompressed HD. You can get Firmtek stuff from
Maxx Digital (714) 374 4944 – ask for Ron.

Bob Zelin

[Jeremy Garchow]

Beauteous. Thank you sir. That firmtek is shipping, huh? Any drive recommendations?

SeriTek/1VE2+2

Isn’t that a PCI card? I’m talking laptop. Don’t you mean the SeriTek/1SM2?

[Bob Zelin]

oops – you are correct –
https://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1sm2
Use the 2 bay Firmtek chassis with 2 Seagate or Hitachi 500 Gig SATA drives, and you have one cheap, fast, great package (see, you get all 3, not just 2).

Bob Zelin

[Jeremy Garchow]

I gave a call and spoke with Ron, he’s going to get back to me tomorrow on availability. Thanks a lot for the help, and I mentioned your name so be sure he gives you a couple of points on your next commission. (:-D

Jeremy

[Mitchji]

[Bob Zelin] “Use the 2 bay Firmtek chassis with 2 Seagate or Hitachi 500 Gig SATA drives, and you have one cheap, fast, great package (see, you get all 3, not just 2).”

Hi,

I second the Seritek enclosure and the Seagate/Hitachi recommendations.

I don’t think all Seagate and Hitachi drives work with the Seritek (I think it is an SCC issue).

So make sure you get compatible drives or have access to a PC to change them.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Bob Zelin]

there was a problem with Hitachi 400 Gig drives only, but since that time, I have only used the 500 Gig drives (both Seagate and Hitachi), with ZERO problems.

bob Zelin

[Ed Dooley]

Barefeats.com did a test with this adapter a while back. The one interesting thing they ran into was that
the card worked much slower on a PB from October 2005 compared to an older 2004 PB. The cardbus slot
seems to be the culprit.

https://www.barefeats.com/hard65.html

Ed

[Jeremy Garchow]

Thanks for the link, Ed, but even the slower speeds will be fine for what I’m doing with this rig.

[Ed Dooley]

I’m always thinking that I’ll be sitting on a beach in Europe editing a long-form uncompressed 8bit project, so I’d want the
fastest PB/Mac Book SATA option. So far my overseas editing has meant editing a DVCPro50 project in my home-town in Ireland (in between the pub visits),
so throughput hasn’t been an issue. I’m looking forward to the MacBook/Sata 3/4 cards, but it will probably be used for
some HDV project that could be done on the slowest FW drive. 🙂
ED

[Mitchji]

Hi Bob,

I saved the following (I think it also applies to the Seritek controllers) from a Web Post, probably
https://hdforindies.com/

“In the course of researching a hard drive purchase, I got the following information
from Seagate presales support:

“All Seagate 7200.9 SATA drives with the Part Numbers that end in the suffix -301 have
SSC enabled and are not compatible with the Apple controllers. (as mentioned previously
here – SSC (Spread Spectrum Clocking) is not compatible with the Mac onboard SATA.
Seagate also has a PC/windows utility to disable this but not a Mac version of it.-Mike)

All other suffixes other than -301 on the Part Numbers are compatible
( -302, -303,-401, -402 etc).

Here is a list of part number with SSC disabled for ST3500641AS:
9BD148-302
9BD148-303
9BD148-401”

I ended up purchasing the hard drive from OWC, and it works fine. (OWC noted last fall
when this issue first came up they disable SSC on their stock of 7200.9 drives-Mike)
There is that occasional drive sleepiness that occurs when the computer wakes up
from sleep, but the wait doesn’t last 90+ seconds. 20 seconds tops.

Best Wishes,

Mitch