Comments on: Review: Newer Technology’s Mac Pro eSATA Extender Cable; The $25 way to add eSATA to your Mac Pro

By: Barbara Southworth

Barbara Southworth — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:27:05 +0000

Thank you, thank you for the note about e-sata cable connection not being hot swappable. After thinking there was a problem with the installation or the cable (short) I tried the proper sequence, et voila!

Now, a question related to a comment above:

“Although they have no “eject” icon in the Finder sidebar, you can still drag any disk icon on your desktop (except the boot disk) to the trash to unmount it. No Disk Utility required. I imagine this would work with eSATA drives too.”

Is this true? Dragging the e-sata cable connected external drive to the trash, and following proper start-up sequence next time, should the e-sata connected external hd be expected to mount properly?

Thanks so much!

By: dupsta

dupsta — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:29:42 +0000

wow thank you for the great tips. I might go this route and run a raid. So weird, I guess I would be running a raid , without a raid card, and using two esata ports with out a PCI card.
Anyone have any clue what kinda read speeds I can get from a dual 2T raid 0 with this set up?

By: StanleyCup99

StanleyCup99 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:07:41 +0000

Very interesting solution…does anyone know if it supports using the eSATA ports with a port multiplier enclosure, like the SeriTek5/PM?
Cheers!

By: josh kaye-carr

josh kaye-carr — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:29:30 +0000

using newer tech esata extender cable on gen 1 Mac Pro along with newer tech Voyager bare drive dock. Things are VERY slow! Slower than USB. any ideas?

By: Snafu

Snafu — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:28:28 +0000

A question: would Disk Utility recognize a newly connected eSATA drive without rebooting, and allow one to mount it? Or does the Mac absolutely require a reboot any time you change drives? I am interested in adquiring an eSATA dual drive base for “naked” drives (see link below) and that would be a showstopper.

http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/externe_gehaeuse/sata_quickport_duo/index_en.html

By: Lance

Lance — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:46:53 +0000

Found this post while researching getting an eSata card for my new Mac Pro, and ended up learning how to fix the eSata drive hooked up to my cable box (In the past, I didn’t always power down the cab;e box, just rebooted it).

This one post has saved me $100+ for a new eSata card, plus helped me record the all of the season finale.

COOL!
Thanks!
Lance

By: michiel

michiel — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:26:18 +0000

What MacSales support forgot to mention though is that these connectors are located all the way on the other (front) side of the motherboard, so it’s now impossible to use this kit. At least without some kind of extension cable running from the front to the back inside the computer. DOH!

By: Dale

Dale — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:13:27 +0000

MacSales tech support just told me that the new (Early 2009) Mac Pros still have the connectors, but one is now used for the optical drive. So, only one of the ports can be used… to find the connector, follow the cable from the optical drive…

Dale

By: SiCHIPS

SiCHIPS — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:02:24 +0000

Anyone know if the newly released Mac Pro boxes with Nehalem chipsets have a similar motherboard inclusion of SATA connectors?

By: David Wilson

David Wilson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:04:42 +0000

To anyone who is interested, the installation manual can be downloaded from here:
http://www.newertech.com/downloads/nwtmpqxe32.pdf