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Not as expensive as other upgrades for a Mac Pro but too much for my wallet.
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Factor in USB 3.0-Esata combo cards and it becomes an expensive upgrade. I don’t think you can boot off any of them either. I didn’t _need_ USB 3.0 in my tower and all of the other cards commanded a much higher price. Would I have been better off with a different card? I’m not convinced.
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So, the initial OS install will be slow but the data restoration will be lickety-split. Worst case scenario, if _all_ the drives in my tower fail, I can boot of USB 2.0 to install the OS onto the primary drive and then transfer data to it from a Time Machine backup connected via USB 3.0. So, for me, the Inateck card is suitable only for backups and for transferring data from one drive to another. However, I’d’ve liked having the option to do so. I don’t boot off externals often since my tower has multiple drives in it. My only other concern is that I can’t boot off the Inateck card. As far as I’m concerned, this problem is definitely not a reason to avoid the Inateck card. I disabled sleep on my tower already so for me it’s a non-issue. One way to prevent the bug from being an issue is to keep your computer from going to sleep. Apparently, it’s a known bug in the OS and Apple hasn’t gotten its act together and squashed it. The problem is intermittent in my experience but testing confirmed it’s an issue. However, and it’s a big however, all is not perfect in the world of USB 3.0 via the Inateck card.Ī bug that causes USB 3.0 drives to eject improperly after waking from sleep affects the Inateck card. I used Carbon Copy Cloner and it doesn’t provide them. I’m sorry I can’t give you actual numbers like the actual transfer speed. The clone from the Backup Plus to the Voyager S3 took less than 1.5 hours to complete. Since I was replacing the iMacs primary drive with an SSD, I had to perform the clone again, this time from the Seagate Backup Plus to a Crucial M500 480 gig SSD in the Newer Tech Voyager S3. That same clone took such a long time on both the iMac and Mac Pro under USB 2.0 finished in less than 2 hours under USB 3.0 going from the Seagate Backup Plus platter drive to another platter drive in a Newer Tech Voyager S3 USB 3.0 drive dock.
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Either way, it made performing clone backups of the iMac pretty tedious and time consuming. If I bring the drives home and perform the same operation on my Mac Pro, the time reduces noticeably, likely because my tower is a far more powerful machine. The initial clone takes 4+ hours on my office’s imac. I regularly clone my office’s primary drive (a Seagate Backup Plus USB 3.0 platter drive connected via USB 2.0 to another platter drive connected via USB 2.0. Admittedly, Thunderbolt is faster and more versatile than USB 3.0 but that comes at a steep price, even if you have a Mac that supports it. It makes that much of a difference when it comes to working with data. But, based on what I’ve done with the Inateck card already, I can say without a doubt I’m sorry I didn’t buy a USB 3.0 card for my Mac Pro sooner. I can’t say how it compares to ESata since I only received my Newer Tech Esata card this morning. USB 3.0 rocks! The difference in speed between USB 3.0, Firewire 800, Firewire 400 and USB 2.0 is tangible. This is my first followup in reference to the Inateck 4 port PCI-E USB 3.0 card I installed in my Mac Pro last week.
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Inateck 4 port PCI-E to USB 3.0 Expansion Card for Mac Pro