[Thomas Morter-laing]

I too have the concern about the adapter getting pretty hot! The read speeds are good though. Incidentally in regards to the write speed issue thing, this is a problem being worked out with the people who supplied me with the adapter- although I’ve promised not to say anything yet( some stuff may be going down between a couple of big manufacturers ;), I would advise to anyone NOT to buy the standard esata card at this time- get the Tempo Pro version. I’m sure I can elaborate in a few days time 🙂

Tom Morter-Laing
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Equipment (not for ‘bragging’, but in case it’s relevant to future posts :D): Canon 7D, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD 6970M [2GB GDDR5], G-Tech G-RAID 2TB (soon to be over eSata!). Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Hi, sorry to interject, but just out of interest isn’t transcoding DSLR footage to 4444 a touch overkill? Huge files with bigger colour space, but you are already giving it a huge ‘canvas’ in 422 right? Just wonderin 😀

Tom Morter-Laing
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Equipment (not for ‘bragging’, but in case it’s relevant to future posts :D): Canon 7D, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD 6970M [2GB GDDR5], G-Tech G-RAID 2TB (soon to be over eSata!). Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

What is the “controller bundled with G-Speed ES series”?
So that supports the idea that if Im doing a reasonably hefty project on this drive, I should get one of these adapters for use with eSata then 🙂

Also, Ive asked this elsewhere on the Cow, but does anyone have any idea whats going on here?:

https://www.scidailynews.com/sonnet-echo-expresscard34-thunderbolt-adapter.html

That one is what I can buy in the UK but it seems to look very different to the one on the Sonnet website :S Any ideas? 😀

Tom Morter-Laing
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Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010

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Equipment (not for ‘bragging’, but in case it’s relevant to future posts :D): Canon 7D, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD 6970M [2GB GDDR5], G-Tech G-RAID 2TB (soon to be over eSata!). Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Hi again- has it arrived? Because i would like to buy one but am very confused by this: https://www.scidailynews.com/sonnet-echo-expresscard34-thunderbolt-adapter.html

That one is what I can buy in the UK but it seems to look very different to the one on the Sonnet website :S Any ideas? 😀

Tom Morter-Laing
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Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010

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Equipment (not for ‘bragging’, but in case it’s relevant to future posts :D): Canon 7D, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD 6970M [2GB GDDR5], G-Tech G-RAID 2TB (soon to be over eSata!). Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Ah sorry Tony- I just saw your second response, ignore my above arguments XD

Cheers Rafael 🙂 OK so Im still getting an adapter 😀

Tom Morter-Laing
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Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010

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Equipment (not for ‘bragging’, but in case it’s relevant to future posts :D): Canon 7D, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD 6970M [2GB GDDR5], G-Tech G-RAID 2TB (soon to be over eSata!). Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Cool, I just looked…. um my point still seems to stand quite a bit :S Unless Ive missed something, the cheapest thunderbolt drive of any kind is still the LaCie 1TB Little Big Disk… which is £299 (UK Sterling, not sure about US)… so my solution would still be cheaper AND allow 2 eSata connected drives, which despite not being as fast as Thunderbolt would provide me with what Im looking for right now. As well as the other express card connectivity it gives me…. 🙂

Tom Morter-Laing
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Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010

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Equipment (not for ‘bragging’, but in case it’s relevant to future posts :D): Canon 7D, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD 6970M [2GB GDDR5], G-Tech G-RAID 2TB (soon to be over eSata!). Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

If you hook up the GRaid via FW800 to your iMac, it will be significantly slower than your internal drive which is running internal sata bus I’m sure
— That’s a pretty obvious point isn’t it? Don’t mean to be rude or anything. The reason I’d like this is because I obviously don’t want to edit from the internal drive, and every bit of speed I can get is helpful- Im looking at working with some uncompressed footage soon, as well as a lot of stuff from a Nanoflash (on EX3). As good as pro res is, I could really do without any bottlenecks when it comes to exporting and rendering out 16bit graphics 🙂

You’d probably be better off buying the thunderbolt raid system cuz as it stands you’re already going to spend $400 US in adapters and card just to plug in the graid via sata.spend that money on the raid, or get another graid for more storage and hook it all up FW800- which is fine for HD ProRes.
— There’s a thunderbolt raid system with a decent amount of storage for that price? Where? Unless you’re talking about the Lacie little thingy…which i don’t want at the moment because you spend a LOT for very little storage 🙂
— You can use 3rd party (cheaper) esata express card adapters (despite what connect want you to think) 😀
— I don’t need any more storage! I have over 15 TB at the moment XD

Thanks for the answers though everyone 🙂

Tom Morter-Laing
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Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010

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Equipment (not for ‘bragging’, but in case it’s relevant to future posts :D): Canon 7D, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD 6970M [2GB GDDR5], G-Tech G-RAID 2TB (soon to be over eSata!). Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Ah cool- at the moment all I need is to connect a GRAID to the iMac with esata for much faster speed, so Ill buy one anyway 😀 Glad that it will at least work 😀 Other peripherals can come later, and for stuff which requires MATROX devices etc I have access to another Mac Pro (just not at my house). Good! Ill buy one for my GRADI no then, cheers 😀

Incidentally, know of any esata port expanders, so I can have more than one esata device attached to this?

Tom Morter-Laing
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Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010

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Equipment (not for ‘bragging’, but in case it’s relevant to future posts :D): Canon 7D, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD 6970M [2GB GDDR5], G-Tech G-RAID 2TB (soon to be over eSata!). Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

OWC (Other World Compuing) can actually install an esata card into your iMac for you I believe it gives you two ports. You have to send it to them but they are highly reliable and I’ve heard great things about how it works.

—Yeah I’m aware of that service, but Im not based in the US and I don’t particularly feel like being without my mac for even a few days at the moment 😀 Its a possibility for the future but I also like the idea of my Mac being intact and having its full warranty 🙂 (Its also covered by Applecare- dunno how that works).

I believe that what you’ve described would not work at all.

— Why not? Isn’t that one of the essential selling point of the Sonnet Adapter? Or are you saying the firewire chain thing won’t work? Please elaborate if possible 🙂

BTW…GRAID is an awesome drive. I use em quite a bit.

—Awesome, glad to hear, its always nice to have reassurance a product is good (esp when you’re buying another one!)

Thanks for the reply 🙂

Tom Morter-Laing
Editor
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010

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Equipment (not for ‘bragging’, but in case it’s relevant to future posts :D): Canon 7D, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD 6970M [2GB GDDR5], G-Tech G-RAID 2TB (soon to be over eSata!). Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Any applied filters? Is it fully rendered? What are your playback settings?

Tom Morter-Laing
Editor
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010

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Equipment (not for ‘bragging’, but in case it’s relevant to future posts :D): Canon 7D, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD 6970M [2GB GDDR5], G-Tech G-RAID 2TB (soon to be over eSata!). Elgato Turbo H264HD.