On Sep 9, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Peter wrote:
> > > On Sep 9, 2008, at 2:22 PM, J Winter wrote: > >> With that in mind: Instead of what i had planned: internal drive of >> under 100 gig, should I be getting some card for PCMIA slot that >> would allow me to use a SATA (they're so less expensive) or some >> other drive for internal use? > > For my Toshiba, I use an Express-34 card ... Silicon Image 3132 chip > set ... and it is Mac compatible right out of the box. > > Well, you DO have to download the Mac OS drivers from SiI's web site, > but the 3132 chip set is supported by MacOS. > > The 3132 supports "port multipliers", too, so you can have up to five > SATA drives off of each of the two eSATA connections. > > You can get 3132 cards for desktops, too, but some are RAID-only, and > have to be FLASHed to be BASE. > > For my work, I need lots of storage, particularly external storage. > > With eSATA being very economical now, and with it being so much > faster than USB or Firewire, I see eSATA is the way to go. Do you mean using eSATA as external drives? (I didn't think you are saying that this card allows you to use eSATA internally.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
