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  • Hi All, just a quick update two years since I got my setup.   My Sonnet thunderbolt adapter broke, and I had to disconnect one of the drives, leaving the other connected via Firewire 800.  It works as a storage solution but I still get nervous havin…
    in Thunderbolt hard drive enclosures Comment by andytothemax February 2014
  • Well folks, a bit of bad news. I RAIDed a second identical Barracuda XT into the second eSATA port on the ExpressCard: With the Mac OS X built-in RAID driver in a striped configuration, I only achieved a 10 MB/s increase in write speed a…
    in Thunderbolt hard drive enclosures Comment by andytothemax January 2012
  • Ok well I got my Sonnet adapter today and will be posting performance figures for it with the external drive below. But first, for kicks, I tested my internal SSD. Holy ####! It peaks around 218 MB/s read and 180 MB/s write. I used the Black M…
    in Thunderbolt hard drive enclosures Comment by andytothemax December 2011
  • Parallels stores the virtual machines in your Documents/Parallels folder. As indicated in the article, you can configure a new virtual machine from an existing file, and to share the machine you have to have the VM in a shared folder. That and t…
    in Parallels 7- Multiple User Accounts Install Problem Comment by andytothemax December 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 How many ports does that Sonnet card have? You have my mind spinning here because a real cheap solution would be to retask an old PC enclosure. By that I mean stuff the adapter and eSATA card in a PC chass…
    in Thunderbolt hard drive enclosures Comment by andytothemax November 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by hmm ... eSATA is fast enough for most people. Lacie makes terrible enclosures. They aren't something you want for heavy use, as they really aren't designed for it. If you want to replace drives, buy from someone else.…
    in Thunderbolt hard drive enclosures Comment by andytothemax November 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Yep way too expensive. Sadly I don't see this changing anytime soon. The problem is that building controllers for TB devices is expensive. It will likely reain so as long as Intel has such a tight grip…
    in Thunderbolt hard drive enclosures Comment by andytothemax November 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 It isn't pointless if you are using RAID for a bit more reliability. FireWire is there to support existing users. It will go away shortly. What is bothersome about your post though is this ides that …
    in Thunderbolt hard drive enclosures Comment by andytothemax November 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Winter The SSD version of the Little Big Disk uses two Intel 320s. Not the best they could possibly use. Exactly; I want to "grow my own." Re my original post, even with regular disks the Firewire bus is saturated …
    in Thunderbolt hard drive enclosures Comment by andytothemax November 2011