Reviews-CoverScout, SongGenie, Elite-AL Pro mini, eSATA card
MacNN has reviewed four new products: CoverScout and SongGenie software from equinux, along with OWC's Elite-AL Pro mini and eSATA card. The Elite-AL Pro mini is a 2.5-inch disk drive running at 7200rpm with available capacities up to 1TB. The drive has ports for eSATA, FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 connections, with eSATA tests revealing real-world speeds of 63MB/sec using the APIOTEK EXTREME Dual eSATA SATA I/II ExpressCard/34 adapter in a MacBook Pro circa 2006. The component adds two physical eSATA ports via the ExpressCard/34 port.... Serial ATA - Universal Serial Bus - IEEE 1394 interface - ExpressCard - MacBook family
published on Monday, the 31. May 2010, macintosh-news-network
Briefly: eSATA performance reviewed, VoIP gaining popularity
diglloyd has updated its series of Mac Performance Guides with a new article covering the performance of several eSATA cards available for the MacBook Pro. The guide looks at three different models, including the OWC Slim ExpressCard to eSATA Adapter ($28), Sonnet Tempo SATA Pro ($198), and Sonnet Tempo SATA Edge ($50). Testing is said to show that in all cases eSATA cards outperform FireWire 800, but due to the MacBook Pro's low-bandwidth ExpressCard/34 slot, top performance is only between 45 and 70 percent of the fastest peripherals for the Mac Pro. Out of the thr...
published on Friday, the 21. May 2010, macintosh-news-network
PCI-Express 2.0 x4 Quad eSATA 6Gbs RAID launches for Mac Pro
High Point has released its RocketRAID Quad eSATA 6Gbs host adapter. The new card is claimed to be the industryís first PCI-Express 2.0 host adapter with four independent 6Gb/s eSATA connectors for the Mac. It supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD configurations for performance or data protection....
published on Friday, the 14. May 2010, macintosh-news-network
AT&T puts out AirCard 890 with ExpressCard, PC Card hooks
AT&T today added a rare dual-mode 3G modem to its choices. Sierra Wireless' AirCard 890 at its core is an ExpressCard/34 modem that works in modern notebooks like the 17-inch MacBook Pro but has a special PC Card housing that will let it fit into older portables. It can reach up to 7.2Mbps downstream with either card format and has both GPS and VPN support for those that need them....
published on Tuesday, the 20. April 2010, macintosh-news-network