Red One Drive: can it do USB 3.0?

[dan freshman]

I thought i'd heard this somewhere or with the red one mx, am I stuck with firewire

thanks

 

[Michael Romano]

Stuck with Firewire. A long time ago, we had cables that went from the LEMO port to eSATA but a firmware update caused them to cease functioning. Back to Firewire. SOrry to be the bearer of bad news.

 

[dan freshman]

How about an esata to usb 3 adapter. Isn't there esata on the red drives?

 

[Michael Romano]

A long time ago, we had cables that went from the LEMO port to eSATA but a firmware update caused them to cease functioning.

No eSATA on the R1 REDRAIDs. The fastest possible setup would be FW800 > Thunderbolt but don't expect TB speeds. By over-provisioning the bus with a TB backend, you'll just get the finest FW800 speed.