eSATA Flash Drives

[AKProductions]

I am in the unique position of having a laptop with an eSATA port and I'm looking to do some work with my MBox Mini on a long bus ride coming up. I can't bring my usual external drive because it requires AC Power, but has anyone here had any experience with eSATA flash drives like this?:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/product...ta_flash_drive

I don't know how important the 30mb/s write is, but the 90mb/s read seems pretty impressive. Ideally I would eventually do some basic field recording with this if it works well enough.

[Craig F]

well a WD VelociRaptor has a Host to/from drive 126 MB/s sustained spec. and the blacks are between 100 and 130 MB/s depending on capacity

90 read should be OK for a smaller session for editing but 30 write maybe 1 track at a time.

Cool to know they exist

[sunburst79]

Originally Posted by AKProductions

I am in the unique position of having a laptop with an eSATA port and I'm looking to do some work with my MBox Mini on a long bus ride coming up. I can't bring my usual external drive because it requires AC Power, but has anyone here had any experience with eSATA flash drives like this?:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/product...ta_flash_drive

I don't know how important the 30mb/s write is, but the 90mb/s read seems pretty impressive. Ideally I would eventually do some basic field recording with this if it works well enough.

Just a note but I would be willing to guess that the "*EOL" in the product description means End Of Life and its discontinued. Not that that would have any bearing on whether its suitable for use with PT. Just might make locating one harder.

[John_Toolbox]

The specs on that are pretty weak compared to OCZ's current offerings for SSD's. What I would do is stick an OCZ vertex in a 2.5" ESATA enclosure, the read and write speeds of those are much more impressive. I think there are enclosures that can be powered from an extra USB port.

[AKProductions]

Well I ended up buying the drive and it has worked out decently well. I haven't had any problems mixing 10-15 track sessions, although I wasn't using too many plugins. It worked well enough for the bus though, and its quite nice not having to lug around a big external hard drive for simple field recording stuff. Overall a decent purchase for the low price.