Mhackintosh blog » silicon images http://blog.mhackintosh.com My life as an hackintosh owner Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:58:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Drivers SIL3132 ExpressCard eSATA/PCI-Express SATA http://blog.mhackintosh.com/2009/10/drivers-sil3132-expresscard-esatapci-express-sata/ http://blog.mhackintosh.com/2009/10/drivers-sil3132-expresscard-esatapci-express-sata/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:40:38 +0000 iAPX http://blog.mhackintosh.com/?p=89 Here it is, Silicon Images posted Snow Leopard 10.6 SIS3132 ExpressCard eSATA Drivers. These drivers are beta, and supports PIC-express SATA SIL3132 cards too.

I am copying 834GB from a 2TB FAT32 SATA drive to a 1TB HFS+ SATA Drive on my MacBook Pro, and the speed is impressive, around 100MB/s, 4X faster than USB 2.0 real-world speed :-)

Beware that these drivers are beta, without any warranty, and should not be considered at this point as production drivers, but still this is a solution for those like me that have a MacBook Pro w/ ExpressCard eSATA SIL3132 controller (real MacBook Pro have ExpressCards, other are just MacBook in disguise ;-) )

Go to Silicon Image download page for SIL3132 Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Drivers (second one)

PS: Finally was 90MB/s thouput for hard-drive copy on eSATA with 25$ eSATA ExpressCard/34! 3X time faster than fastest USB 2.0 hard-drives!

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