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Will these SATA PCI cards work in an Early 2008 Mac Pro
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Really? What a pain. Just out of interest, what makes them incompatible? What about this one?
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=221494
Thank you for your link, but it is very difficult to get OWC/NewerTech stuff in England.
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Dude,
ordering from OWC to the UK is easy, especially for something light like a PCI card. I buy from them fairly regularly.
On the subject of PCI cards, you would actually be better off with a PCI-E card since thats what your Mac Pro has, but only if you wanted to do some kind of RAID. If you just want to hook up a drive dock, then this item will be fine for your needs:
Newer Technology eSATA Extender Cable Adap... (TCB-SATA-MP) at OWC
If you can find a PC equivalent in the UK, that should work fine, its essentially just a cable.
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I forgot to ask, do you swap out naked drives that often or did you already fill all four internal drive bays?
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Thanks again for the replies.
Yes, all four bays currently have 1.5TB drives in them (soon to be 4 x 3TB hopefully) plus 1 250GB IDE drive in the second optical bay.
I already have a SATA HDD Dock connected via USB 2.0, which is slowish for data transfer, and as the Dock also has an eSata socket thought this might be a much cheaper (and faster) way than buying a FireWire 800 HDD Dock.
Thanks again,
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Yes, if you need a ton of drives, eSATA is the way to go. Internal drive speeds, with fairly cheap multibay enclosures. All you need is a PCIe eSATA card that supports port multiplier. note: most eSATA cards do not support booting.
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I picked up a JMB360 based PCI-e card for about $7 a while back and it works fine in my '08 Mac Pro. It uses built-in OS X drivers so there's no need for additional drivers. It supports booting and hot-swapping. Port multipliers are not supported.
You can also look for Silicon Image Sil3132 based PCI-e cards and grab the necessary drivers from their website. However, I've read that their drivers are not the best and can be buggy.
I've read that Marvell 88SE9123 based PCI-e cards work without the need for additional drivers, as well. It's a SATA 6.0 controller but, again, from what I've read, it does not support booting or port multipliers.
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OP wanted to connect a single drive dock. Use the spare on-board SATA first!
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Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep
OP wanted to connect a single drive dock. Use the spare on-board SATA first!
That doesn't support hot swapping, limiting the usefulness of the dock.
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I've never actually tried ejecting a SATA drive. I know Windows doesn't tolerate, figured Macs might since hot swapping is part of the original spec for SATA. Oh well.
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Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep
I've never actually tried ejecting a SATA drive. I know Windows doesn't tolerate, figured Macs might since hot swapping is part of the original spec for SATA. Oh well.
I think this is one of the cases where it works if you get all your ducks in line. Windows will accept it if you have a new enough driver. Intel for some reason nerfs the default driver for their chipsets, but if you hack the RAID driver to load (say the ICH8R driver if you have ICH8), it works.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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