MP 1,1-5,1 PCIe card for 3,1

[flang]

eSATA or FW800? I need more ports for drives. If so, whose?
OWC has an eSATA but no FW800.

 

[velocityg4]

eSATA is faster especially if it is SATA II/III. Why not just get a USB 3.0 card for external drives? Those drives are the cheapest and easiest to find.

 

[flang]

you mean buss powered USB 3 drives?

 

[velocityg4]

you mean buss powered USB 3 drives?

I suppose you could use them. I was just thinking regular 3.5 enclosures with wall warts.

 

[flang]

having had near death experiences live, with wart drives, I only buy with internal supplys, IEC.
Which kind of means Glyph or others like.
If someone made a wart drive with a real power supply with real cable and a screw lock, then ....

 

[velocityg4]

Since you were asking about eSATA and FW800. I assumed you wanted a regular external hard drive.

Anyways, I'd do USB 3.x card or eSATA card to an external 4-bay enclosure which uses a regular computer power cable to an internal PSU then. I'd steer clear of FW800 as it is quite slow. Slower than sequential read/write speeds for modern high capacity HDD.

This Syba may meet your external requirements. It does both eSATA and USB 3.0. Making it easy to connect to another Mac if needed (not simultaneously).

SYBA SY-ENC50104 4 Bay 3.5" SATA III HDD NON-RAID Enclosure – Supports USB 3.0 & eSATA Interface - Newegg.com

Buy SYBA SY-ENC50104 4 Bay 3.5" SATA III HDD NON-RAID Enclosure – Supports USB 3.0 & eSATA Interface with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.com

Perhaps pair it with this card.

NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G Pro PCIe Expansion Card

Installing the card now offers immediate speeds gains while making a Mac Pro or PC future ready for even greater speed gains.

eshop.macsales.com

This card costs more but offers eSATA and USB 3.0.

NewerTech (*) MAXPower USB/eSATA 6G 2x2 Host... at MacSales.com

MXPCIE2E2U3 (*) NewerTech MAXPower USB/eSATA 6G2x2 Host Adapter. Add two USB 3.0 ports & two eSATA 6Gb/s ports. Plug & Play with Mac Pro or via Thunderbolt Chassis. Mac OS X v10.8.3, Windows 7, Windows 8 or later required. *Used, Tested Good, 90 day Warranty*

eshop.macsales.com

 

[EugW]

eSATA and FW800 are both dead technologies.

I say this as an owner of drives that support eSATA and FW800. Or at least I was until last month. I still have a couple, but I've removed the drives from almost all of them now... since eSATA and FW800 are both dead technologies.

What is this to be used for? What about PCIe SSD?

 

[flang]

thanks for the links. hadn't seen the Syba.

 

[flang]

eSATA and FW800, though "dead" are very much of use for me with a obsolete MP3,1 running "dead" Mavs & "dead" PT10HDn with an old UA Apollo.
a PCIe 2TB-SSD is around $200.
a PCIe eSATA card $20.