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Proavio EB400CR Numbers Wanted Still
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[Robert Ober] “6G eSATA should be faster, right?”
It’d be nice but not a sure thing.
To maximize transfer rates, I’d personally look at SAS boxes. There’re small ones, with four or five bays and a 6G backplane giving you a theoretical line speed of 24Gbs in full duplex.
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[Robert Ober] “Really getting tired of the lameness I see in American companies and hoping you are not part of that.”
This may wake up the off-topic dragon. The “lameness” you speak of is likely the result of decades of political and cultural processes and I don’t know what it’d take to reverse them. Does anyone?
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Well,
Yeah, but even on point, I am talking to them offline and they seem like good folks but I can’t get over the fact that they stuck a 3G eSATA interface in the box. And they did confirm that it is 3G. Even if they had to charge a bit more they would still be competitive pricewise and the build quality is top of the shelf.
I know for sure there are many like me with legacy Mac Pros with no USB3 or Thunderbolt. In fact, many are still using Final Cut Pro 6 or 7, although I have moved on to Avid. Even in the Avid world, lots of stuff, including big budget, is cut on 5.5 even though MC 7 is out.
Take it EZ,
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[Robert Ober] ” they stuck a 3G eSATA interface in the box”
Can’t fault them for it: nearly any similar box made at that time had a 3G eSATA, not 6G – probably for a good reason: 6G wasn’t available from the manufacturers of the on-board controllers.
In a similar fashion, you’d think that years after USB 3.0 was intro’d and started shipping, they’d do something about the meager transfer rates that rarely go above 50% of the line speed? E.g. enable UAS on some of these boxes? Nope.
It’s not their fault.
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Hey,
I disagree. It shouldn’t take much to revise it.
I think many folks are too quick to defend companies.
They are taking care of me by letting me return the CR for a MS. I was hoping to stay eSATA as I could also use that with my MacBook Pro that has an Expresscard eSATA adapter.
Have a fun Sun,
Robert
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