Esata to sata to Thunderbolt, think it will work?

[mmomega]

While checking out the GoFlex adaptor I had a thought.

I have a DroboS with an eSata port.
There are eSata to Sata connectors on the market.
The goFlex has a Sata connector.

Is it possible that a new iMac with thunderbolt will read the drives?

Has anyone tried anything like this yet?

It's just $100 less than the Lacie hub and I already have thunderbolt cables so not worried about that part.

 

[theSeb]

While checking out the GoFlex adaptor I had a thought.

I have a DroboS with an eSata port.
There are eSata to Sata connectors on the market.
The goFlex has a Sata connector.

Is it possible that a new iMac with thunderbolt will read the drives?

Has anyone tried anything like this yet?

It's just $100 less than the Lacie hub and I already have thunderbolt cables so not worried about that part.

Interesting theory. You should try it and tell us if it works.

 

[mmomega]

Interesting theory. You should try it and tell us if it works.

Thinking about it, I may order the adaptor today.

I was just wondering if anyone else on the forums had tried this yet.

It would be limited to the 3Gb/s, or at least that is what Lacie's eSata Hub is listed at but it would still be much faster than SUB2 or FW800.

I don't care about maxing out Thunderbolt, I just want something much quicker than USB2 or FW800 without buying a brand new 2012 iMac this year.

This will be much cheaper and should still give me 200+MB/s.

Hell, anything over 100MB/s would be welcome.

 

[ftaok]

I just read this POST. The guy here does something similar to what you want to do. Except he used a SATA to CF adapter to read/write his flash cards.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1367441/