sonnet echo express pro thunderbolt PCI enclosure

[Matthew Love]

Used this for a 3 week job where I needed to be mobile with my red rocket. No longer need it.

Box, Osha power cable, and enclosure all included.

Bought new for $799, looking to sell for $600

I also have a sonnet 4EP esata card ($299 new) that I'll include for an additional $125.00

located in Los Angeles.

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonn...medium=shoppingengine&utm_campaign=productads

 

[Carl Elster]

Any issues working mobile with a RED Rocket?

i assume it works flawlessly...

 

[Paul Ellington]

Sonnett works great w/ Rocket. MBP Retina and newest firmware may give you grief other systems should be fine.

 

[Matthew Love]

Thanks paul, have a sale pending now..

 

[Adam Watson]

I'm testing our new Sonnet echo express pro enclosure with the Redrocket and it seems that it only works at 4x (as opposed to the 8x the redrocket requires to operate at maximum capacity) is there any way to fix this? I've read that thunderbolt connection is limited to bandwidths of 4x and there's nothing I can do to improve it. Confirm/deny?

 

[Shiblon Wixom]

The red rocket only uses x4 lanes for transcoding, you will not get better performance by using x8 lanes, whether it's used in a Mac Tower or Macbook Pro with a PCI-e enclosure such as a Sonnet or Magma Case. The main limitation or bottleneck of most systems is the I/O of the drive/s used for transcoding, You'll see a vast improvement in rendering performance if you use a SAS raid vs a single volume external drive.

 

[Adam Watson]

But it tells me in an error message when starting RedCine that it's in a 4x slot and should be in a 8x slot for best performance. Is that not in regards to transcoding? Does that only apply to playback?