WHERE TO BUY SATA HOST ADAPTERS WITH EXTERNAL PORTS FOR MAC PRO WiebeTech has their own SATA ExpressCard/34 Trans International has their own SATA ExpressCard/34 Sonnet Technology's Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard/34 can be ordered directĪll three cards can be ordered from Other World Computi ng LaCie's SATA II ExpressCard/34 can be ordered direct WERE TO BUY EXPRESSCARD/34 SATA HOST ADAPTERS FOR MACBOOK PROįirmTek's SeriTek SATA ExpressCard/34 adapter (2SM2-E) can be ordered direct. WHERE TO BUY THE COOLGEAR DRIVE DOCKING STATION We tested the WD Caviar Blue drive, for example, using a WiebeTech FireWire enclosure. It handles both 2.5" and 3.5" drives like the CoolGear dock.įYI, FireWire 800 speeds fall somewhere between USB 2.0 and SATA. It costs more than the CoolGear Docking Station and is designed primarily to work with 3.5" drives though an adapter is available so you can use it with 2.5" drives.Ī reader pointed out the NewerTech Voyager quad interface dock. Their latest is the UltraDock V4 which has eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0 ports. Wiebetech has made FireWire drive docks for years. If CoolGear decides to offer a slightly "stronger" optional power adapter, the 1.5TB will work. The big Seagate requires 2.8 amps to spinup. They indicated that the default power adapter puts out 2.5 amps. However, it could not spin up the 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda. We tested various 3.5" drives from 500G to 1TB on the docking station. (See the WHERE TO BUY section for a complete list of SATA host adapter soures). In our testing, we used the FirmTek SeriTek SATA ExpressCard/34 adapter (2SM2-E) in the MacBook Pro. So to squeeze out the most speed from your SATA drive, you'll need some kind of SATA host adapter with external ports - especially since no Mac has a built-in external SATA port. Though the USB 2.0 speeds have improved with the 'late 2008' MacBook Pro, they don't "hold a candle" to the speeds attainable with SATA. Above is a graph showing the speeds you can expect. We tested various notebook and desktop drives using a 'late 2008' MacBook Pro to see what kind of transfer speeds we would get with both USB 2.0 and SATA interfacing.
The CoolGear SATA Drive Docking Station does work as advertised.
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