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USB 3.0 for Mac Pro
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CalDigit FASTA-6GU3
I have this in my Mac Pro, and I love it. Will it help you meet your needs? It's hot-pluggable for both eSATA and USB 3.0.
I would guess it can run anything USB 3.0, but all I have is a 1TB WD My Passport drive that uses USB 3.0, and it works great for that.
Oh, no, really? You tried this card already, and it doesn't work? That blows. I guess I'll have to be careful if I'm ever looking for a USB 3.0 card reader. I have a USB 2.0 card reader right now.
Which one works with compact flash readers?
HI,
I'm having a hard time figuring out if one of these cards work with card readers?
I've seem a couple good things about the caldigit FASTA-6GU3 but don't know if it works well with the card readers. The regular caldigit 2 port card seems to not work well and I see people here saying the caldigit doesn't work well, but I don't know which of the 2 cards that is.
HI,
I'm having a hard time figuring out if one of these cards work with card readers?
I've seem a couple good things about the caldigit FASTA-6GU3 but don't know if it works well with the card readers. The regular caldigit 2 port card seems to not work well and I see people here saying the caldigit doesn't work well, but I don't know which of the 2 cards that is.
I don't know if the FASTA-6GU3 works with all card readers, but it works with WD My Passport 1TB USB 3.0 drives. I plug it in, it pops on screen and works great. I eject, it disappears and no problems.
If I cared enough to get a USB 3.0 card reader, I'd try it. Thing is, I don't need to xfer my SD card data that fast, since my USB 2.0 card reader works great.
If I cared enough to get a USB 3.0 card reader, I'd try it. Thing is, I don't need to xfer my SD card data that fast, since my USB 2.0 card reader works great.
Answer.
As there didn't seem to be any experience here I decided to ask CalDigit directly. I asked about them supporting the Lexar USB 3 reader and a Nikon D800 camera with the FASTA-6GU3. They responded on the next business day with:
Given this response, I went ahead and ordered the card from MacSales/OWC. I should have the card in the next few days but will need to wait a few more to get the Lexar card reader.
As there didn't seem to be any experience here I decided to ask CalDigit directly. I asked about them supporting the Lexar USB 3 reader and a Nikon D800 camera with the FASTA-6GU3. They responded on the next business day with:
Given this response, I went ahead and ordered the card from MacSales/OWC. I should have the card in the next few days but will need to wait a few more to get the Lexar card reader.
this will be amazing if it will work
I already bought a card from them with two usb3 ports only and it didn't work as well card from lacie didn't work
So I will await your response as soon as it arrives
I have both Lexar and Delkim USB 3 reachers and neither one worked with those cards
So I can't wait to your feedback
thank you for testing it for us
I already bought a card from them with two usb3 ports only and it didn't work as well card from lacie didn't work
So I will await your response as soon as it arrives
I have both Lexar and Delkim USB 3 reachers and neither one worked with those cards
So I can't wait to your feedback
thank you for testing it for us
Rather sad that you'd have to be a guinea pig in terms of testing out a camera on that card though, since CalDigit decided they weren't even going to bother.
Yes, it would have been nice for them to have tested some cameras but given that the D800 is the first USB 3.0 DSLR, that I know of, and it's not shipping for a month, they really couldn't have tested this config.
Still waiting on my delivery.
True, but they could at least have tested out existing cameras (USB 2.0) rather than assume/leave it up to the user to find out for themselves.
USB 2.0 works fine
as mac supports 2.0
the 3.0 is not yet supported so that's why we are searching for 3.0 solution that works,
as soon as mac will support it all the cards will work
for now you need a specific drivers that work with specific devices
as mac supports 2.0
the 3.0 is not yet supported so that's why we are searching for 3.0 solution that works,
as soon as mac will support it all the cards will work
for now you need a specific drivers that work with specific devices
I'm thinking of ordering one of these CalDigit cards, but my real question is does it support bus-powered 2.5" hard drives? I have multiple Seagate GoFlex portable drives, and want to use the USB 3.0 connector on my 2010 Mac Pro (because there's no STANDARD eSATA GoFlex connector) and the Thunderbolt connector on my other Macs. The 2-port cards have a power connector that you have to use for bus-powered devices, but this card doesn't seem to have that. So will bus-powered drives work with just the PCIe power?
I have a WD My Passport USB 3.0 drive, and this card runs it by the USB 3.0 cable only.
A. Yes
Thanks, I'll order one right now. I'm tired of backing up TB of data over Firewire 800, looking forward to speeding that process up considerably.
Wonderspark,
I've bought FASTA6GU3 based on this post. It works great in my 5.1. As you've stated, it is hot-pluggable as well as bootable. So far so good. Thanks for bringing this up.
I received my caldigit card, USB 3 card reader and flash memory cards on Monday. It all seems to be working great. I've seen no problems at all and my transfer speeds went from around 10 MBs on USB 2 to about 80 MBs with the new stuff.
Bootable? Could one use the SATA6 ports with a couple of SSD's in RAID0 to boot from?
I received my caldigit card, USB 3 card reader and flash memory cards on Monday. It all seems to be working great. I've seen no problems at all and my transfer speeds went from around 10 MBs on USB 2 to about 80 MBs with the new stuff.
Where's the best deal on USB3 CF card readers?
Thanks!
I can boot from a disk inserted in my Voyager Q dock connected to that Caldigit card. I suppose if you had the SSDs in an enclosure, and connected via eSATA or USB 3.0, then it would boot. Not sure how it would handle individually connecting each SSD to each of the two ports, if that's what you mean.