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eSATA drive for for External Hard Drive
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louh
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Mar 1, 2008, 10:09 AM
 
Does anyone have a recommendation on purchasing an eSATA card for a 2x2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro. I want to purchase a Western Digital My Book Studio Edition 1 TB external hard drive.
Thanks for the help.
     
mduell
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Mar 1, 2008, 07:28 PM
 
Are you running Tiger or Leopard? If you're running Tiger get something cheap that's Silicon Image 31xx/35xx based. If you're running Leopard you need to buy something more pricey like the Sonnet E4P due to driver issues with the SiI 31xx chipsets and Leopard.
     
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Mar 4, 2008, 01:07 AM
 
is esata external hard drive bootable?
     
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Mar 4, 2008, 01:24 AM
 
I don't see why it wouldn't be.

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Mar 4, 2008, 09:40 AM
 
If you just buy a $4 bracket, then it would be bootable. With the E4P I'm not sure.
     
   
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