On 13/07/2009, at 10:02 AM, Robert Howells wrote:
On 13/07/2009, at 9:35 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
OSX is fine with eSata , almost as though it is connected to the
internal bus .
Speed is about 6 ( yes six ) times faster than firewire 400 .
With some arrangements you can even boot off the eSata , but that
is not possible on ALL cards
and sometimes is related to drive maker .
Hi Rob & Bob,
eSATA is unquestionably the fastest. But, as of mid-2008, no Macs
include eSATA ports, though you can add them using a PCI or PCI-X
card (for Power Mac and Mac Pro models), a PC card (for
PowerBooks), or an ExpressCard/34 (for MacBook Pros). You’ll have
to decide whether the extra speed boost is worth the cost of the
adapter (and, perhaps, a more-expensive drive).
Only a few of the Macintosh- compatible adapters currently support
booting from an eSATA drive, though that situation could change in
the future.
Bob, I'm interested to know what Mac "bootable" compatible adaptor
you have found for Leopard?
Hi Ronni,
Now that is a question !
All you people with new or near new Macs and here am I with G4 and
G5 ,
My experience is with a bootable older card on a G4 tower with Tiger ,
As a matter of interest I will check that out in the G5 with Leopard
but the card is in the DIL quicksilver
at the moment so might be some time before I can try .
The specific card was similar to this <http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Firmtek/SATA1ESE2//
>
but mine has only the 1 connector . It will also boot OS9 .
In all my reading I have only ever seen the Seretek cards as being
bootable , but not all of them .
I also have an old Lacie card , and there is no way it will boot !
People with a Tower with internal SATA bus and Sata hard drives
potentially have
an option to connect an external connector in the place of the
provided 2 nd hard drive
position on the back plane .
That is what I am using in the G5 ... you lose the ability to instal
a 2nd drive
but gain the flexibility of connecting in turn to any number of
external drives.
That option costs less than $20 !
SORRY , cannot do with an Imac or Laptop .
Bob
Thanks Bob for your reply.
I knew the Question ... but thought you might have the Answer ;-)
The older machines "sometimes" have it over the new machines ... hey
Bob?
There are a few adapters for my MacBook Pro that "say" they are
bootable, OWC's eSATA SATA I/II ExpressCard/34 adapter
<http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/EXP34SATA2P1/>
I will make do with Firewire 800 and backing up to my 4TB Drives in
DROBO.
Have a good day.
Cheers,
Ronni
PS. it's Cloe's 13th Birthday today. We are off for her favourite walk
and then a picnic in the park with her little buddies
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