Re: [sussex_mug] eSata card for Mac Pro

[Graham Street]

Thanks Toby I'd heard of that and already did some research. It appears those ports won't allow hot-swap. The disk(s) in the external eSata hub need to be up and running before the Mac Pro is booted. So, that's not much use to me as I don't want to have to keep rebooting each time I change a disk. Thanks for the thought though ... Graham on 29/10/2010 09:46 Toby Leighton sent the following: You can buy a back plate and actually use the internal sata bus (as long as you arent already at capacity with 4 hard disks and 2 dvd drives)  It will be guaranteed reliable, as its taking the sata straight from the mac pro motherboard, and its cheap enough to be worth a punt. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-025-AK Is an example of one, but I know there is a mac-pro specific kit out there which may look prettier.  From memory the extra sata ports are sort of on the top right of the mac pro board as you look at it in the case, and one will probably be in use for your dvd drive. Toby On 29 October 2010 09:36, Graham Street <grahamstr...@streets-ahead.com> wrote: Can anyone recommend a good (and reasonable price) eSata card that will plug into a Mac Pro please. I now have an external eSata dock. It will plug in via USB2 but the eSata port will be so much faster. Thanks, Graham -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to s...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.