This week I sold my old G5 along with a 23″ Cinema Wide Display, a BlackMagic card, Sonnet Tempo eSata card, and a Sonnet Fusion 500P populated with 5 x 500GB hard drives. It was a complete edit system including lots of fast storage, but as part of my “out with the old – in…
Tag: sata
A Blu-ray Drive in a Mac Pro?
When my Xbox HD DVD drive wouldn’t mount under windows inside of VM Ware (gosh, why would I need that?) I decided to pick up the LG GGW-H20L. It is a Super Multi-Blue optical drive that reads basically every disc format including Blu-ray and HD DVD and also burns Blu-ray RW’s and RE’s. I picked…
Review – G-Speed eS IS blazing fast
It’s been a few weeks since I talked about storage solutions.  I’m getting closer to purchasing a solution for my home/office, which will undoubtedly be a raid hanging off of eSata.  I’ve used a few different eSata towers and will eventually talk about each of these solutions.  Today I’m going to cover one of the better ones…
Review – Vantec NexStar ROCKS!
Continuing my series of reviewing every hard drive solution I’ve ever touched, I want to talk about the Vantec NexStar. Not only this particular hard drive dock but the general concept, the goods and bads about it, including some benchmarks. I’ve always like the idea of the hard drive dock. Recently I needed to back…
FreeAgent Pro Review – NOT Good!
A few years ago I moved towards eSATA connectivity for drives. Â SATA (or Serial ATA) is the connection that is on the actual drive and has blazing fast transfer speeds up to 3Gb/sec. Â The concept is that whatever drive enclosure you buy has some sort of interface card that ‘converts’ SATA to USB or Firewire….