External Hard Drive eSATA?

mjimji
Posted:
in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Hi,

I have a 15" Core Duo MBP (no Firewire 800) and I was wondering what my best options are for fast, external storage. Is is possible to use a PCI-E to eSATA card to use with an eSATA external hard drive? I'd like to use this setup for editing video... any recommendations?

Thanks,

Mike

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    corvettecorvette Posts: 561member
    You can easily do this using the expresscard/34 slot. There are two port eSATA cards available. You can then purchase an external enclosure that has room for two SATA 3.5" drives that you can either put them in RAID 1 via software or you may be able to find an enclosure that is setup for hardware RAID.



    There is a good selection of options here: http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Sea...%20KITS&sort=a



    and here is the card i was talking about:



    http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonne.../TSATAIIE342P/
  • Reply 2 of 5
    mjimji Posts: 25member
    thanks, ill check it out. i was also wondering--this hadn't even ocurred to me before--but what about a firewire 800 card in the express slot? would i be better off with this or eSATA? I hadn't even really thought about a RAID... I'm really just a hobbyist, though I definitely need more space (and speed wouldn't hurt either).

    thanks,

    mike
  • Reply 3 of 5
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    For storage alone, eSATA is a better option than FW 800.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    kfdankfdan Posts: 81member
    the only problem I've run into on the eSata expresscard 34 and external hard drives is that there does not seem to be a way to run disk repairs (how to unmount) or disk permissions? Anyone have a suggestion?
  • Reply 5 of 5
    mjimji Posts: 25member
    This one is way cheaper:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16839123003

    anyone tried it?
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