- The card supports bus power of up to 18W per port with an included power adapter. It requires Mac OS X v10.2.4 or higher to support FireWire 800, although the FireWire 400 port will also function.
- Low-end MacBook Pros: SD Card and FireWire In, ExpressCard Out, Charles Moore, 'Book Value, 2009.06.16. The new 13in and 15in MacBook Pro have FireWire 800 and SD Card slots, but ExpressCard is gone, left for the 17in MacBook Pro.
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Tango Express 800 PCIe CardOriginally posted November 16th, 2007, by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist The Best Free Drivers app downloads for Mac: USB Audio ASIO driver ExactScan Digidesign CoreAudio Driver Paragon NTFS for Mac Joystick and Gamepad Tes. Drivers are code that help Windows and MacOS recognize the physical components of your computer, like a printer, graphics card, or mouse. Find the drivers you need here, or get an app that helps. A device driver is a piece of software designed to help your machine communicate with your mobile device or computer. Brother drivers allow your Brother printer, label maker, or sewing machine to talk directly with your device. Free download driver for mac. Apple continues to produce Macs with FireWire 800 ports, but they always share the same single data channel/controller with the FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 ports. Why is that an issue? For one thing, we've experienced some strange slowdowns in FireWire 800 devices when FireWire 400 devices are added to the mix. And they continue to run slowly until you disconnect the FireWire 400 device and Restart the Mac Pro. Since Apple appears unwilling or unable to put FireWire 800 on a separate controller and/or data channel, we (and many readers) have been hoping some third party would offer a FireWire 800 PCIe card for the Mac Pro. Our encounter a year ago with the first attempt by a third party PCIe FireWire 800 host adapter was disappointing. The write speed topped out at 25MB/s. The company rep blamed it on the Texas Instruments chip. Sonnet Technology has obviously found a way to break through the write speed barrier even though they are also using a TI chip. We present to you test results from the Tango Express 800 PCIe host adapter featuring two FireWire 800 ports and two USB 2.0 ports. Free divx for mac. GRAPH LEGEND
Two Channel = dual drive software RAID 0 with one drive connected to internal FW800 port and one connected to the Tango Express 800 PCIe host adapter
Two Built-in = dual drive software RAID 0 with both drives daisychained to built-in FW800 port
Two Tango = dual drive software RAID 0 with each drive plugged into one of the two FW800 ports of the Tango Express 800 PCIe host adapter
One Built-in = one drive connected to the Mac Pro's built-in FW800 port
One Tango = one drive connected to the Tango Express 800 PCIe host adapter Both drives tested were WD Raptor 150GB 10K SATA drives in FW800 enclosures.
The Tango Express 800 PCIe host adapter was installed in an 8-core Mac Pro running OS X Leopard 10.5.
QuickBench 4.0 is a benchmarking tool included in the SpeedTools Utilities ADVANTAGES OF THE TANGO EXPRESS 800
1. It provides a second FireWire 800 data channel. As you can see from the graphs, by connecting one drive to the Tango Express 800 and one to the Mac Pro's built-in FW800 port, our two drive RAID 0 array almost doubled in read speed compared to daisy chaining them on one built-in port. That illustrates the 'power' of multiple channels feeding FireWire 800 RAID systems. If you are capturing SD video from a videocam and storing it on a FW800 storage device, it helps to have each device on a different data channel. The Tango Express 800 gives your Mac Pro that second channel. 2. It works with bus powered storage. We connected the LaCie Big Little Disk (two notebook drives in single enclosure set to HW RAID 0) to the Tango Express 800. It mounted and ran very well without the need of a power supply. In the past, FW800 PCI and PCIe host adapters did NOT supply bus power to connected devices. 3. Your Mac Pro can still sleep. If you are running Leopard, the Tango Expres 800 will still allow the Mac Pro to go into Sleep mode. In the past, FireWire 800 PCI cards prevented the Mac towers from going into Sleep mode. It is suspiciously OS related since we still can't get the Mac Pro to Sleep when running Tiger with the Tango Express 800 is installed. ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
1. The write speed is still below that of the built-in FireWire 800 port. Internet speed tests for mac. 2. How about a four lane or eight lane FireWire 800 PCIe card with two or four data channels? WHERE TO BUY THE SONNET TANGO EXPRESS 800 PCIe HOST ADAPTER
Order direct from Sonnet's Online Store. OTHER SOURCES:
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Find cables, charging docks and battery cases for Mac. Charge and sync up your Mac. Buy online with fast, free shipping. Q: I have a new Mac that only has FireWire 800 ports.What audio interfaces can I use with FireWire 800? A: At this writing, the only interface we’re aware of with built-in FireWire 800 support is the RME Fireface 800.However, virtually any FireWire interface can be used with your Mac using a simple FireWire 800-to-400 adapter or cable.
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