Any suggestions for a quiet dual enclosure and express 34 dual eSATA port card for Mac OS 10.6?
No plans for hardware raid. The Sonnet card linked below is 133 mBs per second for each eSata connection (dual ports). The higher end card is obviously for hardware raid at 300 mBs per...
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonne.../TSATAIIE342P/
Enclosure to consider is also a dual with a fan (stick in WD Black Caviar 7,200s)
http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cfm?Ntt=owcmesatatbek&Ntk=Primary&N=0&Ns=P_ Popularity|1
There is no dB level measurement unfortunately and OWC doesn't have any specs on it. I called and spoke to a supervisor. Anyone know if this is a large diameter fan? The other Elite AL-Pro dual has a single 77 mm fan (Oxford 944 chipset) but a 25 dB rating with a pair of 7,200 Barracudas or Hitachi Deskstars. Unfortunately hardware spanning is questionable as to which drive contains the sample library.
Hoping to find a quiet 120 mm fan with a slower speed, just an empty enclosure with two eSata ports for two 3.5 inch drives (one for samples and session bu, the other audio).
Any recommendations?
Check out these two discussions: One is at CreativeCow's FCP forum, apparently lots of problems, some solutions to reinstalling the Silicon Image driver, etc. and/or J Micron, but mostly if you have updated to Snow Leo verses a clean install.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/...d_reports.html (primarily Leopard)
Snow Leo
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1051087
Thanks Much. Hope this thread is useful to folks.