![]() The only Mac systems that can use eSATA are the Mac Pro (via a PCI-Express card) and the MacBook Pro (via an ExpressCard). The lighting-fast Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 was used for the test.ĭiskTester was used to test both configurations. The only difference was the cable connecting the Voyager to the Mac Pro. The Voyager has eSATA, Firewire 800/400 and USB 2.0 ports, allowing the same drive in the same enclosure to be tested. ![]() It uses a “bridge card”, and is a bit slower than an eSATA-only enclosure about 5MB/sec for reads, and perhaps 1-2MB/sec for writes. But the alternative-external SATA or eSATA-eclipses the performance of Firewire 800, even for a single drive, forgetting a striped RAID, where the gap would grow far larger.įor this test, the NewerTech Voyager was used. It also ostensibly offers good performance. ![]() Send Feedback Related: eSATA, hard drive, laptop, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, optimization, Photoshop, storage, USBįirewire 800 offers convenience: a built-in port on most Macs.
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