- Sonnet External Blu-ray Reader/dvd-writer For Mac
- Sonnet External Blu-ray Reader/dvd-write For Macbook Pro
Sonnet makes it simple to restore what's absent-just connect a Performer™ Blu-ray Player to load software, import CDs, burn CDs and DVD-ROMs, and play DVDs and even Blu-ray movies. Performer is a BD-ROM/8x DVD±RW drive that connects to and is powered by your computer's USB port. (Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, and CDs) Sonnet’s RackMac™ mini makes rack-mounting your Mac® mini simple, but our Blu-ray Burner for RackMac mini makes adding an optical drive to your system just as easy.
How silly does this sound? I have the LG Blu-Ray drive and a Sonnet E4P PCIe card with 4 external eSATA ports - no internal 😟
I'm going to jury rig the setup with a cable having SATA connection on one end and eSATA on the other. There is an empty PCIe slot where I'll use a slot cover that has a hole in it. The cable will run out the hole and plug into the eSATA card on the outside of the case. I guess I need to be careful how I run the cable so it doesn't interfere with any other part of the system.
Any other connection, IDE or USB is just going to slow the drive down isn't it?
Apple needs a firmware update that allows us to take advantage of the two extra SATA ports on the motherboard (the LG doesn't work properly with Toast using this connection). I paid for the ports Apple, let me use them! FIRMWARE, FIRMWARE!
I'm going to jury rig the setup with a cable having SATA connection on one end and eSATA on the other. There is an empty PCIe slot where I'll use a slot cover that has a hole in it. The cable will run out the hole and plug into the eSATA card on the outside of the case. I guess I need to be careful how I run the cable so it doesn't interfere with any other part of the system.
Any other connection, IDE or USB is just going to slow the drive down isn't it?
Apple needs a firmware update that allows us to take advantage of the two extra SATA ports on the motherboard (the LG doesn't work properly with Toast using this connection). I paid for the ports Apple, let me use them! FIRMWARE, FIRMWARE!
Sonnet External Blu-ray Reader/dvd-writer For Mac
Sonnet External Blu-ray Reader/dvd-write For Macbook Pro
Mac Pro 8-core Xeon, Mac OS X (10.5.4), RAID card, 16GB RAM, ~7TB HD space
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