Re: [Avid-L2] sata dual port card

No problem. Do it all the time with that particular card. Unlike FW800, there is no speed decrease with two hooked up versus one. That card is a great deal, unlike the crappy one generic card I had before this one. Though it does not get close to the speeds of much faster cards it's still a solid 30% faster than FW800 (measured as drive throughput) and I have had no issues with two cards in two machines for the past... well, since OWC bought Newertech.

In some specific cases, I have issues with a drive not mounting if it is connected and spinning at boot. Solution is simply to cycle the drive after boot. Does not happen often, or even 100% of the time under the same circumstance, and only on one machine of the two. Oddly, the two machines are about as identical as they can be so not sure why one and not the other except that I did not get the cards at the same time. Same drives even.

Cheers,
tod

On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Lou Wirth wrote:

> If you have a dual port sata card like, for example, this one:
>
> http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/MXPCIE6GRS/
>
> Can you connect different Sata drives to each port or do they have to be identical. Can I hook up an OWC 6TB Raid to one port and a GTech 6TB raid to the other port?
>
> thanks
>
> Lou
>
> Lou Wirth Productions
> 500Tamal Plaza, Suite 522
> Corte Madera, CA 94925
> www.louwirth.com
> 415-924-9411p
>
>
>

Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com

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