This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Preferred BOB for MC6?

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Preferred BOB for MC6?

The PCIe cards that ship from Matrox & AJA are single lane. As is the
PCIe card that ships with MojoDx & NitrisDX. We just started carrying
a new product called mlink. I'm going to try running Avid hardware
with it connected to a new 27inch iMac.

mLogic mLink Thunderbolt to PCIe Expansion Chassis $399

With the new mLink from mLogic you can now do things with your
Thunderbolt enabled iMac, Mac mini, Macbook Pro or MacBook Air that
use to be the exclusive realm of big iron workstations like the Mac
Pro. mLink and Thunderbolt technology bring the functionality of
professional add-in PCIe adapters to these systems...no workstation
required. Set yourself free.

Wouldn?t it be nice to use your MacBook Pro on set to capture
uncompressed HD or 2K footage? With mLink you can. mLink enables just
about any half-length PCIe card to be attached to any Thunderbolt
enabled computer. How about connecting to a 10 GigE network with your
iMac? No problem.

Swap. Go.
We made it easy to install and swap PCIe adapters in to and out of
mLink. In no time at all, you are good to go and doing things that
were simply not doable before mLink.

Thunderbolt I/O. Ultrafast performance.
Thunderbolt technology enables mLink to transfer data at up to 10
Gbps. That's 20x faster than USB 2.0 and 12x faster than FireWire 800!
When loaded with a PCIe RAID adapter mated to eight SATA II drives,
mLink cranks out over 700 MB/second of throughput for the most
demanding applications. That's some serious performance.

Big Possibilities. Small form factor.
Two 10 Gbps Thunderbolt ports enable mLink to support a daisy-chain of
up to six Thunderbolt devices including DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, Mini
DisplayPort and VGA displays (when using mDP adapters). And all this
flexibility packaged in a compact and light weight chassis that
seamlessly blends in to any desktop workflow and makes mobile
applications a breeze.

http://www.videoguys.com/Item/mLogic+mLink+Thunderbolt+to+PCIe+Expansion+Chassis/B4E494C4D4.aspx

Gary

Quoting Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com>:

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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, IAN WILSON <ur035254@...> wrote:
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> <<Hmm, perhaps a Thunder Bolt to PCIe breakout box running from an
> iMac http://tiny.cc/39d1ow , anybody?>>
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> Thunderbolt only supports supports four lanes of throughput right
> now. So having a PCIe breakout box is of limited value. Won't
> support a graphics card for example.
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