So you’ve got a cool new MacBook Pro, but you want to up the hard drive a bit without sacrificing speed. Well, you could connect a SATA drive via Firewire 800, but you’ll only be getting up to 800 Mbps transfer speed. But now there’s a better alternative, the Serial ATA ExpressCard adapter from FirmTek. The card offers a SATA port which has speeds up to 1.5 Gbps (SATA-I) and 3.0 Gbps (SATA-II) for connecting to a SATA hard drive or SATA RAID. Still, you’re going to have to pay for speed, as the card costs $119.95. Of course, Firewire 800 ExpressCards only go for about $20 less, and you sacrifice a lot of speed. Also, you can get the card and a SATA drive enclosure as a bundle for $309.95. But, if you just want a decent backup drive like me, Ultra ATA and Firewire do just fine.
[via MacCentral]
