MX22287
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MX22287
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- SKU: MX22287
- ILC: 837281000050
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A thing about the Silicon Image 2132 on earlier versions of the Bytecc
3/9/2012 7:10:41 PMAmir Khan from calgary writes:
- Strengths:
- So I bought this card in 2007 (for my first gen Macbook Pro) everything worked well after installing the Mac drivers from their website. I recently upgraded to a Unibody 2011 MBP and came across Sonnet's Expresscard Thunderbolt adaptor. I found out that Sonnet officially supports only their Expresscards. The thing is that the Sonnet Tempo esata adaptor uses Silicon Image chipsets. After installing Sonnet's drivers- I'm using this card over Thunderbolt while using a second Expresscard.
- Weaknesses:
- For whatever reason- I can't seem to get my Western Digital 74GB (3.5 inSATA1) 10krpm HD to detect through the Sonnet adaptor (the 2011 MBP starts beach balling). On the built-in Expresscard slot though, it works fine via the latest Bytecc driver (released in 2011 it think). All my other drives (that are all 2.5 in. SATA2 and running on external power) seem to work fine. There's a few other chipsets used in different versions of the Sonnet Tempo but Bytecc is likely to be using the same ones.
- Summary:
- I've transfered about 320GB using this card over Thunderbolt on my 2011 MBP and it appears to work as quick as if I plugged it into the built-in expresscard slot. I'm thinking the issue with my 10krpm is something to do with the hard drive. The Tempo card is around $50- and I paid about $75 for this card in 2007 (after shipping and taxes from Tigerdirect- $58 before). I stopped using this card (as I was using another Expresscard)- so I'm happy I can use both.
An update on OSX support
2/26/2012 1:06:43 PMTheodore B. O'Neil from Calgary writes:
- Strengths:
- Works most of the time
- Weaknesses:
- Hard eject of connected disks when entering sleep mode
- Summary:
- I am the same person who wrote the original review. When it works, it works well, but I have found a fatal bug in which the card will forcibly eject all connected disks when entering sleep mode (you get the error "You have unplugged the disk without ejecting, data loss may occur, blah blah blah"). I have found no solutions on the Internet. I don't know if the problem is with my laptop hardware or the controller chipset / drivers, but I would no longer recommend this card for Apple laptops.
Works with MackbookPro 4,1
2/15/2012 11:10:25 AMTheodore B. O'Neil from Calgary writes:
- Strengths:
- -Price -2 eSATA ports is nice -A bit of a boost over FW800 when accessing RAID0 drive; SSDs would probably benefit from this much more than spinning disks do.
- Weaknesses:
- -Form factor (sticks out of the port quite a bit; works fine when using external monitor, but I wouldn't want to use it when moving around) If you want to use it on the go there are cards (not stocked by Memory Express unfortunately) which have one port but lie flush with the ExpressCard port. -Card does not lock in port: a small tug can eject it. -Require third party drivers (search for SI3132 eSATA drivers: Silicone Image is the manufacturer of this chipset.
- Summary:
- I was looking for an upgrade to my Macbook Pro to speed up disk performance. I already had the 2TB MyBook Studio RAID 0 / 1 drive, which I was accessing via Firewire 800. I figured that eSATA should provide a bit of a speed bump. Well, it did make for a bit better performance (XBench disk score moved from 55ish to 65ish, so maybe 15% bump overall). On sequential reads / writes you see about a 25% boost over FW800, on random reads / writes there is no difference. SSD may be better.
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