Thursday, January 5, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] Thunderbolt to eSATA adapter?

Yes. We're on pc at work and macdrive has corrupted a few external drives
(g-drives) the last 7 months that I've been here. I've been pushing to
switch to paragon hfs for windows but we're in our last season and there
are just too many computers that we'd have to switch over... Just isn't
worth the trouble.

On Thursday, January 5, 2012, johnrobmoore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>
> But mac drive is on the PC side is that where you've seen the problems?
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, namyrb <namyrb@...> wrote:
>>
>> I'll have to second paragon. Ive just seen too many drives get killed
using
>> macdrive.
>>
>> On Thursday, January 5, 2012, Red Truck <redtruckproductions@...>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have used Paragon "NTFS for Mac" http://bit.ly/zOFim5 on my Macbook
with
>> > success to read/write media files on exchange projects from a PC NTFS
>> > format drive.
>> >
>> > Robert Alsop@
>> > Red Truck
>> > Video to go!
>> > Toronto
>> > 905-717-3718
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Jeff Kreines" <jeffkreines@...>
>> > To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
>> > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 8:00 PM
>> > Subject: [Avid-L2] Thunderbolt to eSATA adapter?
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Forgive me for cross posting.
>> >>
>> >> I have a project coming up where I need to move drives back and forth
>> >> between a W7 PC and a MacBook Pro.
>> >>
>> >> Some will be used to capture material on the PC, where I do not need a
>> >> particularly high data rate (no problem using a 7200 RPM single SATA
>> drive
>> >> for this).
>> >>
>> >> I need to take these drives to a MacBook Pro (portability is an issue)
>> for
>> >> generating H264 web versions (QT Player 7 does this nicely) and also
for
>> >> copying files to additional drives and possibly FCP and AE (simple
>> stuff).
>> >>
>> >> Thunderbolt seems necessary on the Mac end (vs FW800), and eSATA on
the
>> PC
>> >> end. I looked at the Promise RAIDs, but the price just jumped, and
they
>> >> are Thunderbolt-only. So scratch them from consideration.
>> >>
>> >> Just found this which looks very useful:
>> >>
>> >>
>>
https://secure1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?cPath=127_132&products_id=392&osCsid=71d4505f4b968e98251bb456e43eace8
>> >>
>> >> For an extra $49.95 Sonnet has an Expresscard 34 device that works
with
>> >> this and gives me 2 eSATA ports. Seems ideal, if it works.
>> >>
>> >> I would use this with either the 6TB G-Raids or maybe the cheaper 6TB
>> >> MyBooks, both with eSATA ports. Might format all drives as HFS+ and
use
>> >> MacDrive on the PC. (Good or bad idea?)
>> >>
>> >> Also this lets me use cheap SATA raw drives in a $30 dock for
backups. Is
>> >> this too good to be true?
>> >>
>> >> So, anyone used this adapter? Anyone like or dislike the G-Raids?
>> >>
>> >> All advice appreciated... Especially Bob Zelin's.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Jeff Kreines
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >
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