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Hello everyone,

As I guess now everyone knows, I am working on my digital camera, it needs around 60 MB/sec write speed to disk. I can not use firewire 800, as all the bandwidth will be in use by the camera head.

The alternative may interest you as well.

The MacBook Pro has one of these new ExpressCard/34 slots, you can use this with a eSATA card. I use the following card:

    http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/adexc34-2e.asp (ADEXC34-2E)

The JBOD/RAID card will absolutely not work on Mac OSX, so get the cheap normal one. The cheap normal one is not officially or on-officially supported by this manufacturer, but it is supported by the manufacturer who actually supplies the chipset.

I am sorry, but I seem to misplaced the link to the chipset manufacturer.

Then you need some cabling that fits on this card and a naked harddisk:

    http://www.addonics.com/products/other/ (get a 1 meter eSATA to SATA cable, such as: AASA2SA100C)

A power adapter with a connector that fits on a naked harddisk:

  http://www.addonics.com/products/power_adapter/aasaps.asp

Last thing you need is the disk itself, I am using a Western Digital SE16 250GB. Which is pretty quiet for a harddisk.

I am tested this, for now it seems to work, and the write performance seem to be correct for this drive, around 60 MB/sec.

Cheers,

    Take

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I also found a card that although it was sort of generic uses the Silicon Image chipset and their driver is available on the web.  Works very well.  A number of external enclosures for both 2.5 lap top drives and regular 3.5 drives have eSATA ports as well as FW or USB2.  So you don't have to have the fagility of a bare drive.

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