new external RED ROCKET option ?

[Erik Vanlenten]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/07/magma-expressbox-3t-gives-you-3-external-pcie-slots-over-thunder/

Could this work for the RR card?

 

[Blair S. Paulsen]

Theoretically it could handle a 2 Rocket implementation in the two x8 slots. Hopefully x4 slot could support a 4 port eSATA HBA that would provide an eSATA tap for the Red Station and transit drives.

With the recent release of the BlackMagic box that uses Thunderbolt and what I expect will be a plethora of TB RAIDs by years end, this has the potential to make it possible to run a full blown setup off a MB Air. Did Moore foresee that?!?

Cheers - #19

 

[Steve Sherrick]

I think my back is about to thank me soon.

 

[IAN SUN]

Magma says in their press release that they are working with RED, AJA and others. Hopefully this comes in soon and at a decent price. The 27" iMac is starting to look pretty good as a DIT station.

 

[CJ Roy]

Looks promising.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Using both channels, a Thunderbolt port is roughly equivalent to a PCIe v2.0 X4 slot, which is also equivalent to a PCIe v1.x X8 slot. So if you want to maximize your Rocket, it will saturate that TB port. The Magma box only has one slot inside that is an X16 electrical slot, which the Rocket needs to supply its power requirements. So, it's not all that realistic to put more than one Rocket in this enclosure. You should definitely be able to install other cards in there along with a Rocket, but you will be heading to bottleneck city if you try to use them all at the same time for anything serious.

 

[Cid J Salcido Uyarra]

As long as I can put a Red Rocket and a SATA_USB3.0 card to hook up two drives and a 1.8'' Mag Reader then groovy. Not sure how we'll that will work out.

 

[Luc Bouvrette]

Wow.

 

[Erwin van Dijck]

On IBC Ted demoed a Sonnet Technology external box with a Red Rocket inside, connected via Thunderbolt to a SSD and a MacBook. Very small, lightweight and easy setup to manage your Red files out in the field.