((((It appears this card tops out around 120MB/s )))<<<<<< new info. I figured there must be a catch. 12 bucks and bootable with plug and play.. still it is 50 % faster then fw800 and low cost>>>>> oh well!
,,,,okay I purchased this card on ebay for 12 bucks.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250713595403&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
for 12 dollars I can use a bootable esata card for a mac pro. it works plus and play with no drivers. right now I mounted it it booted and I have the sunday nite football game on as I type this. with proper setup you can have a really good system dirt cheap. okay I booted the mac pro with a 2 bay sans digital towerstor it has a raid0 on chip. so I now have a very fast boot drive with esata speed. I need to test but i am thinking this 12 dollar pcie card along with this unit.
http://www.thermaltakestore.com/blacx-st0005u-refurbished-pro0005.html cost gives you an external bootable esata solution for 36 bucks add this
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1040890/
for 100 more and you have an external esata ssd setup with many raid choices bootable! grand total 136 plus drives. leaving the 4 internal bays for big hdds and another boot drive or big hdd in the optical bay. more tests to come.
okay here is xbench with a raid0 1200gb vel raptor. eye tv running and here is xbench alone. so it is pretty quick with a pair of vel raptors. I have some ssds i will test more on mon.
,,,,okay I purchased this card on ebay for 12 bucks.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250713595403&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
for 12 dollars I can use a bootable esata card for a mac pro. it works plus and play with no drivers. right now I mounted it it booted and I have the sunday nite football game on as I type this. with proper setup you can have a really good system dirt cheap. okay I booted the mac pro with a 2 bay sans digital towerstor it has a raid0 on chip. so I now have a very fast boot drive with esata speed. I need to test but i am thinking this 12 dollar pcie card along with this unit.
http://www.thermaltakestore.com/blacx-st0005u-refurbished-pro0005.html cost gives you an external bootable esata solution for 36 bucks add this
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1040890/
for 100 more and you have an external esata ssd setup with many raid choices bootable! grand total 136 plus drives. leaving the 4 internal bays for big hdds and another boot drive or big hdd in the optical bay. more tests to come.
okay here is xbench with a raid0 1200gb vel raptor. eye tv running and here is xbench alone. so it is pretty quick with a pair of vel raptors. I have some ssds i will test more on mon.
