Hello,

Lacie makes a Thunderbolt to eSata hub that could be quite useful for me now that I have a Thunderbolt Mac. I was wondering if anyone has tried that device and what level of performance they saw.

I'd be connecting a MediaSonic ProRaid 4-bay unit to it.

Sourcing one may also be difficult; even Apple is claiming 1-2 months before shipping: LaCie eSATA Hub Thunderbolt Series - Apple Store (Canada) (http://store.apple.com/ca/product/H8875ZM/A/lacie-esata-hub-thunderbolt-series)

As far as I know, they haven't started shipping yet.

That's interesting, since there are reviews out there. I know the full featured hubs with USB3, FW800 and other ports aren't shipping yet, but LaCie has this one as an active product on their web site.

That's interesting, since there are reviews out there. I know the full featured hubs with USB3, FW800 and other ports aren't shipping yet, but LaCie has this one as an active product on their web site.

I don't have any firsthand knowledge, but "Rob the Mad Scientist" has tested performance with SSD's:

LaCie Thunderbolt-to-eSATA Hub (http://www.barefeats.com/hard153.html)

Craig

Hello,

Lacie makes a Thunderbolt to eSata hub that could be quite useful for me now that I have a Thunderbolt Mac. I was wondering if anyone has tried that device and what level of performance they saw.

I'd be connecting a MediaSonic ProRaid 4-bay unit to it.

Sourcing one may also be difficult; even Apple is claiming 1-2 months before shipping: LaCie eSATA Hub Thunderbolt Series - Apple Store (Canada) (http://store.apple.com/ca/product/H8875ZM/A/lacie-esata-hub-thunderbolt-series)

I had some hope for this product before I read that "Port-multiplier enclosures do not work." which sucks because I have 3 of them containing 12 hard drives... Not that I have a TB Mac, but the lack of ability to use port-multiplier enclosures makes Macs with only TB non-starters for me... thus one of the reasons I am sticking with my Mac Pro.

Personally if you can find a similar product by anyone other than LaCie that would be my first choice as I (and many others) have had nothing but bad luck with their products.

Friend of mine has two of them - they work great connecting to single drives but the lack of port multiplication is frustrating unless connecting to a device that does the port multiplication internally (we hadn't tried this in speed tests)

The adapter is *heavy* of which most of it is the aluminum case.

To single drives he was getting the max performance you'd see from a single spindle drive (up to 120 MB/sec read, 90MB/sec write on a 2 TB) - one on each eSATA connector copying from a REDMAG.