Curious observation - drive dock behavior between PowerPC and Intel

[eyoungren]

A long time ago I purchased a Thermaltake BlacX Duet drive dock. I even ran down to Frys Electronics and got a powered USB 2.0 hub to handle it (which long ago died).

I've made a thread here and several comments over the years about how the drives in this dock would just disappear from the desktop after a while. Presumably the technology in the dock would have them 'sleep' or something and this was always a problem.

I am preparing to receive a SSD for my Mac Pro so I decided I'd attach the dock to the MP and see what happens. Low and behold, over the last day and a half every time I have woken the MP to use it the drive in the dock has remained present.

When I got the dock it was the Intel era already. It was plugged in to my QS, then my Quad and finally my G3. eSATA or USB connection, it didn't matter, it eventually dropped the drive off after a few hours.

So, this tells me that there is something either with PowerPC hardware or the OS that isn't happening - or that this dock is looking to work with Intel Macs.

Not looking for a solution, just thought it was very interesting that now years later the dock is actually functioning as I would expect it to.

 

[Amethyst1]

I am preparing to receive a SSD for my Mac Pro

It was about time

 

[eyoungren]

It was about time

Really, that's all you get out of this post? LOL!

It's a 512GB Silicon Power. I would have had it a month ago, but the vendor was misleading, took my money and never shipped the item. I only got a refund last week. Newegg, which I was going to go with ended their sale and ran out. But apparently, during the past month they got more, so I was able to get the same deal. It's coming from Rowland Heights, CA (where my grandparents used to live) which is only a state over so I should see it either tomorrow or Saturday.

I have a bunch of drive swapping to do when it gets here, so that all the larger drives end up in the MP. This is just going to be the boot drive and the reason I got it has nothing to do with boot times and everything to do with QuarkXPress, Photoshop and Illustrator performance. I went with 512 because everything will fit with some space. Going to have to shift my downloads folder to another drive though and this will finally force me to clean out my home folder of all the junk.