14 DAY TRIAL // Vydeo has just announced a new dual-port eSATA ExpressCard/34 for the MacBook Pro. The dual port ExpressCard has the 34mm form factor, and supports connection of SATA external and internal storage devices in a laptop's PCI slot.
Vydeo has support for both Mac OS X and Windows based laptops, and provides drivers for both. The module provides a 2.5Gbps ExpressCard/34 interface on the host side and dual, fully compliant SATA II 3Gbps ports on the device side.
This thing is perfect for video editing applications that work with massive HD files which require high speed SATA external storage. According to Vydeo, the eSATA 34 will be available and shipping in volume some time in the April-May 2006 period.
The eSATA ExpressCard/34 specs: ￭ Twin SATA-II shielded connectors (eSATA) ￭ 48-bit LBA supports HDD larger than 137GB capacity ￭ Supports 1-lane 2.5Gbps ExpressCard/34 ￭ Compliant with PCI Express Specification, revision 1.0a ￭ Designed for Express Card 34mm slot ￭ Hot-plug capability ￭ Supports SATA II transfer rate of 3.0Gbps ￭ Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 Specification ￭ Supports twin, independent Serial ATA channels ￭ Independent link, transport, and data FIFO ￭ Independent command fetch, scatter/gather, and command execution ￭ Supports Legacy Command Queuing (LCQ) ￭ Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) ￭ Supports Non-zero offsets (NCQ) ￭ Supports Out of order data delivery (NCQ) ￭ Supports FIS-based switching via port multipliers ￭ 31 commands and scatter/gather tables per Port ￭ Twin LED indicators for HDD access ￭ Driver support for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 ￭ Driver support for Mac OS X 10.4 Intel based systems (MacBook Pro)