Chris Ratledge
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Amazing! Only on here can someone ask an innocent question, get answered with sarcasm due only to my own naivete, and in my following reply acknowledging the sarcastic reply that I answer in kind, I’M THE ONE called a “dickhead” publicly.
Nothing in my original post was intended as “Tell me how to do this so I don’t have to pay your services,” though that appears the way it was received, because I didn’t realize that “Final Share” was anything Mr. Zellen (or anyone else for that matter) was personally invested in as a material participant, and for that matter didn’t realize it was anything more than branding a system from a bunch of off-the-shelf components, in the same way I can buy the same hardware RAID enclosure and populate it with drives myself that any other number of vendors sell as turnkey systems and save myself money as well as gain experience doing new things.
I posted in a public forum for any insight or answers from ANYONE, and in no way was I “trying to pick the brains of a highly experienced and talented engineer for free and rob him of his livelihood…” Ridiculous assumption.
The idea of a public forum is to ask questions of people with differing skill sets and experience for information, and to share information if you choose. HOW you choose to do it if at all is where this thread went all wrong. A simple denial/inform that what I was trying to do was some sort of proprietary system would have sufficed, but that’s not what I was presented. Instead I was met with sarcasm, which I’ve unfortunately experienced before on the COW on several occasions, including from Mr Zellen. I don’t know why people feel the need to reply this way from the start, but I’ve gotten to the point where I may choose to call someone on the way they interact, by response in like manner.
For my naivete of relationships involved I’m publicly called a “dickhead,” by someone who’s only interaction with me is reading a couple of paragraphs, and the sarcasm I received in response to an innocent inquiry is actually applauded… whatever.
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Is it possible for you to reply non-sarcastically Mr. Zellen?
I can appreciate the social aspect of the COW and information access and sharing, but for the life of me I don’t understand why you routinely respond the way you do.
It’s obvious I’m seeking more information other than just if it’s conceptually possible, and that it’s indeed implied I’m going to be doing this myself if not impossible on it’s face. I’ve seen you link to Final Share information in the past, which has resulted in near step-by-step instructions, albeit for GBe connections. I just don’t want to build some grand vision and realize it’s not possible or advisable because of my “question” in the initial post….
“….any worthwhile pointers, suggestions, or potential pitfalls appreciated.” ? <- There, I put a question mark at the end this time.
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according to the reviews on Amazon, the Sonnet Expresscard USB3 adapter is extremely poor, many issues. No hot-swapping, bus-powered drive issues, card doesn’t work in the thunderbolt > expresscard adapter that SONNET makes, random disconnects, fried drives, etc…
From the most detailed review I read:
“1. You have to download the Mac Driver from the Sonnet Website.
2. This SUPPORTS BUS POWERED HARD DRIVES – but you have to buy the optional USB-to-DC auxilliary power cable (available at OWC) and attach it to one of the MacBook Pros’s USB Ports so you can get 500 mA power on ONE of the USB 3.0 Ports, not both. Thus only one hard drive can be bus powered. 500 mA is enough to power most drives and OWC’s Mercury Elite-AL Pro enclosure.
3. The Mac OS X Driver has SERIOUS LIMITATIONS. It only supports USB 3.0 hard drives, Sonnet’s media reader and Lexar’s Compact Flash/SD reader. The PC Drivers works for any 3.0 peripheral.
4. The Mac OS X Driver DOES NOT SUPPORT USB 3.0 HUBS. They do not show up when plugged in. This means I can’t buy 4-port powered USB 3.0 HUBs and run 4 or more external hard drives off of this USB 3.0 adapter. Since NO USB 3.0 external drives allow you to daisy-chain hard drives, this limitation is difficult to accept. It limits the adapter to two external hard drives (one bus powered if you also use up a USB 2.0 port).
5. Another serious limitation is that the driver doesn’t support USB-connected external displays. Since USB 3.0 external displays for the Mac are coming soon and have much better performance than USB 2.0 external displays, this is a serious limitation for a future desired capability. Certainly, the 2012 MacBook Pro Retina Display with built-in USB 3.0 ports won’t have this limitation.
6. Since the current driver does not support non-storage USB devices, this means USB 3.0 scanners won’t be supported either. “